You know, dropping f bombs is not a very mature way to engage in discussion. I agree, though, that it should also become harder to get patents. If a useful inv

You know, dropping f bombs is not a very mature way to engage in discussion. I agree, though, that it should also become harder to get patents. If a useful invention depends on more than one or, at most, two patents the patents mainly serve as friction to innovation. A corrollary of this is that software patents should not exist. Perhaps there could also be a process where it is asserted that a medicine can only depend on one patent. Whenever it depends on more than one it should be adjudicated which of them is the innovative one and the other ones should not apply. This will solve the cross licensing problem that you notice.