Patenting does not supercharge anything after it has been issued. If the patent is really breakthrough, the result is it tends to stifle competition while the h

Patenting does not supercharge anything after it has been issued. If the patent is really breakthrough, the result is it tends to stifle competition while the holding party entrenches to milk their asset. The only way patenting can ever help is by creating an incentive to companies to do research, because patents make it very easy to defend your "IP". But this is before, not after the patent has been issued.