> the American patent system is fundamentally broken in anycase because the patent office needs to hit a quota to get funded so they approve any old shit. I th

> the American patent system is fundamentally broken in anycase because the patent office needs to hit a quota to get funded so they approve any old shit. I think that combined with the fact that patents are granted and exploited for much cheaper than it takes to invalidate an invalid patent. It's a few orders of magnitude of separation between the thousands of dollars you spend to acquire a patent to the potentially millions you may spend to invalidate a bad patent.