> Patents, on the other hand, are excludable and rivalrous only in the tautological sense Yes, and it's really easy to con people with the tautological definit

> Patents, on the other hand, are excludable and rivalrous only in the tautological sense Yes, and it's really easy to con people with the tautological definition. "Of course IP is just property. You can buy it, and sell it, just like a car". By the same argument, piracy is not theft but license infringement. The whole thing is so abstract, it's easy for people to muddy the waters.