I think all of these problems are minor compared to the underlying difficulties that patents inherently bring.
Patents are artificial scarcity—a legal blockade for doing something that improves the world.
Patents are sparsely enforced, and the penalties are disproportional to the harm.
Patents are really only usable by expert lawyers, and mostly used against smaller companies to prevent competition, not to foster cooperation.
There are industries and equilibria where patents are the least-bad workaround for the broken systems around everything. Especially in old-school process patents, where HOW to do something is the hard part. But the VAST majority of patents should go away. Most ideas and designs are the easy part nowadays, the hard part is operations and regulatory compliance.
I think all of these problems are minor compared to the underlying difficulties that patents inherently bring.
Patents are artificial scarcity—a legal blockade for doing something that improves the world.
Patents are sparsely enforced, and the penalties are disproportional to the harm.
Patents are really only usable by expert lawyers, and mostly used against smaller companies to prevent competition, not to foster cooperation.
There are industries and equilibria where patents are the least-bad workaround for the broken systems around everything. Especially in old-school process patents, where HOW to do something is the hard part. But the VAST majority of patents should go away. Most ideas and designs are the easy part nowadays, the hard part is operations and regulatory compliance.
If you want to argue against the very existence of the patent system, you should make your own post for that. This isn’t the right place for that.