Patents are merely tools that get you on the negotiating table. It doesn't guarantee you a business or fame. If you aren't already famous or wealthy or connect

Patents are merely tools that get you on the negotiating table. It doesn't guarantee you a business or fame. If you aren't already famous or wealthy or connected, there is no guarantee that you are able to acquire wealth through this way. Even with connections and wealth, there is no guarantee of a business. I myself would hope to one day to use patents for posterity, but not to enforce a monopoly. Businesses will look at what I have and what they have and laugh in my faces and tell me that I have to pry their money from their lawyers' dead hands. That's fine. I don't anticipate relying on monopolies or licensing as a revenue source.