"<a target="_blank" href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights-free-speech/remembering-real-purpose-patents">Patents are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution for a single purpose: to promote the prog
<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Anthony Lombardi practices litigation and patent prosecution at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP.</em>
Software patents continue to command the spot