US accountants are filing for patents on tax-dodges:
Why would Congress pass a law allowing such a thing? The answer is that it did not. But a U.S. appeals court ruled in 1998 that business methods could be patented, and since then the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued 50 tax- strategy patents, with many more pending.
What's next, patents on taxi-drivers' favorite routes through downtown?
(Thanks, Mateusz!)