Patents are unreadable anyway, and in fact reading them is legally dangerous because then you may be knowingly infringing, which triggers triple damages, as I r

Patents are unreadable anyway, and in fact reading them is legally dangerous because then you may be knowingly infringing, which triggers triple damages, as I recall. The latest style is to use a mix of patents and trade secrets anyway, meaning that even if you wasted your time reading patents, you still wouldn't have the full picture.