What’s worse is, to some extent you have to do this or else at some point, someone will come along and sue you for doing the obvious thing you’re doing. I used

What’s worse is, to some extent you have to do this or else at some point, someone will come along and sue you for doing the obvious thing you’re doing. I used to refuse to file patents. That attitude seems a bit petulant to me now after seeing the company receive some patent threats related to my area of work. Just filing the dumb patent is cheaper than defending, esp for large organisations. I now file bullsh%t patents too :(