Patent crazy

There’s a flurry of news on the technology patent front in the last day or two. First,


Creative is accusing Apple of an iPod patent breach
, saying that the iPod’s user interface violates a patent that Creative has.

Then comes the news that Nintendo has patented the Sanity system for games.

THEN there’s news that even
ringtones can be patented
!

Things have gone absolutely nuts.

Via The Financial Times, Slashdot, and Engadget