Irrelevant. The comment I was responding to said the following: "...I don't think many people here would be familiar with the day-to-day, mundane aspects of IP

Irrelevant. The comment I was responding to said the following: "...I don't think many people here would be familiar with the day-to-day, mundane aspects of IP law which probably, for the most part, works fairly well." I am responding directly to that claim, and have used as examples situations involving patents and situations involving copyright, with the intention of conveying that there is not a single facet of this whole area of law that seems to function well in practice unless your interests are aligned with monopolistic corporate power. Most examples of it not being that bad are examples of it simply not coming up