Given Disney's successful lobbying history (see: Mickey Mouse Act for copyright extension), they might be one of the few organizations who could enact some change to the patent industry.

Whether those changes would be positive (for industries outside theirs) is another thing.

Ha. This is a one-time tactical move only. Their interest in everlasting patent reform is zero.

Hey now, they don't want infinitely long periods for intellectual property... they are for limited periods of "forever minus a day".

Too obvious. It's easier to achieve this effect by doing what they're currently doing: Periodic extensions that apply retroactively.

But then where would they get their stories from?

This is not about patents in general, it's just about patents that they don't own.

If it means no old movie coming back to theaters as a pseudo 3D movie, then this is the best patent ever.

While I agree with you, I think it's sad that we live in a world where you can patent "remaking old movies in 3D". It just feels like everytime a new gimmick appears, someone could just patent "remaking old <insert product> with <insert gimmick>".

I hope there's a little more to the patent than that.

I'd be very interested in seeing patent extensions being added. Let's call in the "Yoko Ono Patent Extension".

That headline just makes me sad.