"when the research in these domains has been openly published and built upon by the community already" Well, mega-corps like Google lobbied for a first-to-file

"when the research in these domains has been openly published and built upon by the community already" Well, mega-corps like Google lobbied for a first-to-file system (America Invents), for one thing. Community shmunity; whoever has the most resources to file the most applications wins.