Hopefully any patent will not be granted. That's not how you make progress. Understandable that competition would have a head start without incurring the substa

Hopefully any patent will not be granted. That's not how you make progress. Understandable that competition would have a head start without incurring the substantial R&D costs, but we should rather strive to make R&D tax deductible, rather than maintaining harmful patent system. This way business that incurred substantial R&D expenditure could claw it back from the sold product. This also incentivises businesses actually using their R&D rather than shelving a patent and then going on fishing expeditions to see if someone come up with the idea independently and executed it only to slap them with a lawsuit. Patents? Nope.