Z:gnu-www-ja-software-literary-patents--7a1313-Who would the patent holders h/en

Who would the patent holders have been? They could have been other novelists, perhaps Dumas or Balzac, who had written such novels&mdash;but not necessarily. It isn't required to write a program to patent a software idea, so if our hypothetical literary patents follow the real patent system, these patent holders would not have had to write novels, or stories, or anything&mdash;except patent applications. Patent parasite companies, businesses that produce nothing except threats and lawsuits, are booming nowadays.