Patents, like all forms of "Intellectual Property" are ultimately a government-granted monopoly on an idea, which is anathema to freedom of thought and expression. If used at all, they should be sparing and very short-lived.
Even the Constitution says as much (Article 1, Sec. 8: "by securing **for limited Times** ... the exclusive Right to ... Writings and Discoveries."
What passes for intellectual property these days is a grotesque perversion of the idea. We would be better off with no intellectual property than with what is enforced today by government at the barrel of a gun.
Sir Ryan Bemrose
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