From an ethical perspective, I think the amount of truly unique ideas is actually very, very low, I think most ideas (including all the snapchat UI concepts) ha

From an ethical perspective, I think the amount of truly unique ideas is actually very, very low, I think most ideas (including all the snapchat UI concepts) have been had by multiple people, so I do not think it makes sense to give people a monopoly on ideas since by doing so you are restricting others who may have even come up with the same idea. The amount of obvious patents vastly outnumbers the amount of non-obvious ones. There is an argument that says that large companies are better at execution, and so will just reap the rewards of other people's ideas, but I think that big companies are actually bad at execution and they are currently benefiting far more from the current legal regime. So, all in all, we should abolish all patent law.