Great. Apple patented a rectangle (https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rec...), some dude patented a way to update a sports game (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/january-stupid-patent-...). I am not even getting into the whole patent trolling and companies suing each other because they are infringing upon each other's patents and then settling.
But no, for all the evil patents are we must have them, because some guy found a new way to make milk foam. Jesus ducking christ hacker news, this is almost as funny as Paul Graham writing an essay about why VC is great.