It’s a bad scene right now. The social value of patents was supposed to be to encourage innovation — that’s what society gets out of it. The net effect is that they decrease innovation, and in the end, the public loses out.
Eric Von Hippel, professor of technological innovation at MIT, in an interview with The New York Times
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