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# Patent
Patent is a form of extreme "[intellectual property](intellectual_property.md)" that allows owning useful ideas, oppressing and bullying people and preventing others from using ideas -- software patents are especially harmful to society and [technology](tech.md). Patents are currently along with [copyright](copyright.md) likely the most [harmful](harmful.md) kind of "intellectual property" -- even though copyright is probably a more pressing issue at the moment because it is the most common form of IP oppression, patents can be just as harmful in individual cases. Of course we're not even talking about the whole gigantic bullshit bureaucracy and business connected to patents that just wastes man centuries of effort. Examples of patents in software are minigames on loading screens in games (this patent has already expired), [shadow volume](shadow_volume.md) algorithm for rendering shadows, [mp3](mp3.md) format (also expired), various [compression](compression.md) techniques, even such broad ideas as **public key encryption** (yes, the whole idea that's the basis of [cryptography](cryptography.md) was patented and unusable until 1977) etc.
Patent is a form of extreme "[intellectual property](intellectual_property.md)" that allows owning useful ideas, oppressing and bullying people and preventing others from using ideas -- software patents are especially harmful to society and [technology](tech.md). Patents are currently along with [copyright](copyright.md) likely the most [harmful](harmful.md) kind of "intellectual property" in technology -- even though copyright is probably a more pressing issue at the moment because it is the most common form of IP oppression, patents can be just as harmful in individual cases. Of course we're not even talking about the whole gigantic bullshit bureaucracy and business connected to patents that just wastes man centuries of effort. Examples of patents in software are minigames on loading screens in games (this patent has already expired), [shadow volume](shadow_volume.md) algorithm for rendering shadows, [mp3](mp3.md) format (also expired), various [compression](compression.md) techniques, even such broad ideas as **public key encryption** (yes, the whole idea that's the basis of [cryptography](cryptography.md) was patented and unusable until 1977) etc.
There is an article on software patents at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-patents.en.html. There is even a site and initiative dedicated to ending software patents at https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Main_Page.