Can you find examples of patents killing innovation? Sure. But the idea of a patent is to give the inventor time to bring the invention to market, and it would

Can you find examples of patents killing innovation? Sure. But the idea of a patent is to give the inventor time to bring the invention to market, and it would be impossible for any inventor to have the chance without the protections offered by patents. Show me an inventor that hasn’t obtained a patent that successfully out competed an established competitor that freely copied the inventor’s invention. The USPTO doesn’t care about innovation, and it is not their job to care about that…so why the question and why now? Lobbying and special interests of the big companies. If anything get rid of patent protections for big businesses, it’s not like a big tech or big pharma patent is what’s keeping the small guy from competing with them, but if the small guy can not protect their IP from being copied by big businesses then they will never be able to compete.