Using an invention to create a product is a way (maybe the most popular way) of making the invention public knowledge. The dream of licensing is not a perversi

Using an invention to create a product is a way (maybe the most popular way) of making the invention public knowledge. The dream of licensing is not a perversion of the patent system, it's part of the point: to get inventions out of people's heads and secret workshops, and into forms that benefit the public at large.