> Oh yeah, there are so many patents with obvious prior art, or that are so much "the obvious way to do it" (to anyone with expertise in the field) that they're inherently unpatentable, but which get through the US Patent and Trademark Office because the reviewers have no experience in software development, so they get fooled by language designed to conceal what the patent is really about.

Yea that's exactly what I mean

One solution would potentially be to increase the USPTO budget by a lot. But... nobody does that I guess. So here we are.