> You're forgetting about the small inventor. How often will that happen? The existing system seems to massively favour keeping existing big companies big. A s

> You're forgetting about the small inventor. How often will that happen? The existing system seems to massively favour keeping existing big companies big. A small inventor can easily ignored. Meaning, there's quite a difference between being right and ensuring a company does the right thing. Some products (e.g. mobile phones) are covered by hundreds of patents. A small inventor having a huge benefit from patents? It maybe happens, but I really doubt the benefits outweighs the clear damage that patents are having.