> Abolish it entirely. The original argument for patents was to avoid secret sauces that die with their companies. The reality is that companies that would us

> Abolish it entirely. The original argument for patents was to avoid secret sauces that die with their companies. The reality is that companies that would use secret sauces still do, and those whose technology would be trivially reverse-engineerable patent it. And a plethora of secret-sauce companies give up and publish to attract talent: see Apple’s move to publish about ML.