Existential Angst wrote:

Case against patents:
http://www.tinaja.com/glib/casagpat.pdf
Lots more of this, as Lancaster is prolific, to say the least.

Whaddaya think? Certainly an original inneresting take, that I can find
nowhere else on the web.
Most of the search retrievals involved the ethics, constitutionality,
economic-growth-type implications, but not pure CYA effectivenss of the
patenting process.

Here or elsewhere, he does peg a kind of "break-even point" for a patent, as
$12 mil is sales -- if you expect to sell $12 mil worth of your product,
then mebbe patent it. This was in 1993, tho.
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EA

In the current corrupted patent system you can make millions just
pushing through a nebulous patent application and then distorting it's
claims and suing a deep pockets company in front of the most ignorant
jury you can find. I've seen it happen with the most bogus of claims,
but when emotionally argued in front of a poorly educated jury the
holder of what is really an invalid patent wins tens of millions.