Well, yeah, that's the point of a patent. Many people seem to be in disbelief about this but the purpose of a patent is to give the holder a monopoly on the "i

Well, yeah, that's the point of a patent. Many people seem to be in disbelief about this but the purpose of a patent is to give the holder a monopoly on the "invention", at least in the sense that the patent can be used to prevent anyone else from doing anything productive with it. Stupid, huh?