The government has issued its response to a recent e-petition calling for “the Prime Minister to make software patents clearly unenforcible”. Here’s the actual details of the petition which also contains the governments response and a link to the Gowers Report on Intellectual Property which the response refers to.
Frankly, I don’t know what’s currently more flawed, the idea of Software Patents, or the laughable, and often corrupt, process through which they are granted.