Patents were created to encourage inventors to explain how their inventions worked. Instead of hiding their secrets, inventors simply published how their invent

Patents were created to encourage inventors to explain how their inventions worked. Instead of hiding their secrets, inventors simply published how their inventions worked and gained a monopoly to sell their use for a few years. A very noble intent. Now, we're in the 21st century. We are no longer in the years of inventors like Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla... Inventions today are discovered by large groups of researches who get their money from many sources private and public. These researchers, the real inventors, often get just a small part of the profit gained from their inventions. The largest parts ends up with companies which get giant profits and benefits from the lack of competition. While patents were invented to guarantee that small individual inventors could be protected from giant companies attacks and encourage information sharing, patents these days do exactly the opposite of that. Apple being able to patent the "genie dock effect" is a clear example that the "patent system" is broken.