Thought: Intellectual property should have nothing to do with payments to register your ideas with the government. Essentially, IP cases should revolve around w

Thought: Intellectual property should have nothing to do with payments to register your ideas with the government. Essentially, IP cases should revolve around whether an idea was “stolen”, which is different than coming up with the same thing at a later date. The original intent of the patent system was to promote publication. There are plenty of other ways to publicize work now.