I feel about the same, with the twist that my employer, and my preferred mobile platform, are under assault via the patent system, and need defenses. So I've become less conflicted about filing for patents. I'd rather see the system fixed, but it's going to be another 5-10 years before Congress is willing to consider patent reform again; they don't understand that the America Invents Act was no good for software.
(I had to skip over the details of your patent—Google is very insistent that we not find out what's patented, so we can't wilfully infringe anything. Which is itself something that needs to be reformed.)
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Date: 2012-10-24 10:09 pm (UTC)(I had to skip over the details of your patent—Google is very insistent that we not find out what's patented, so we can't wilfully infringe anything. Which is itself something that needs to be reformed.)