How about we develop a system that doesn't move the tech industry's wealth from builders to "thinkers who patent their ideas" (or is it just the lawyers doing that nowadays?). Even if 1% of the patents are actually useful, why do companies have to pay for the 99% useless ones, too?
I think we're still at the very beginning of this, and now that they've realized there's a lot of money to be made from buying patents and suing companies, or simply using your useless patents to do that, this madness should increase exponentially in the next few years, until the tech industry can't take it anymore do whatever it takes to make the politicians change the laws.
I think we're still at the very beginning of this, and now that they've realized there's a lot of money to be made from buying patents and suing companies, or simply using your useless patents to do that, this madness should increase exponentially in the next few years, until the tech industry can't take it anymore do whatever it takes to make the politicians change the laws.