Big companies tell all new employees: DO NOT GO LOOKING AT PANTENTS. Because if you read a patent, and you knowingly infringe, it's triple damages. The system

Big companies tell all new employees: DO NOT GO LOOKING AT PANTENTS. Because if you read a patent, and you knowingly infringe, it's triple damages. The system is broken. You can't know what is patented because it's too bleeping risky to even look. There is no "teaching." All you can do is build up a war chest and rattle paper at people who try to come after you.