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So, if you have enough money, you can just fire off a shitload of ex-post-facto patents after a competitor releases a prior-art product, sue them, and win using patents that didn't exist when the competitor's product was created????
Might as well just close the whole patent system and leave, there's quite literally no point to obeying it if you can so blatantly steal anything and everything.
There's no point? There is a point: To protect the rich and powerful. The patent system is serving its purpose here as intended by the people who have been making these rules.
That is not the official goal of the patent system in any country, and any behavior like that should be stopped.
You think the string-pullers would be honest about their goals? It's all about control, making sure the haves keep.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
As great a philosophical mainstay as Hanlon's razor is, I find it pretty difficult to believe a system of laws that almost exclusively favour the wealthy, especially when it's people in positions of wealth that write said laws, is some happy accident.
I'm not saying otherwise, I just have some serious doubts that there are some men in black in some dark room pulling the strings.
They're definitely in an ivory tower at the least.