I was reading somewhere (forbes?) that more than 90% patents are anyways useless. Most patents are to scare people like the average Joe that opens up a company

I was reading somewhere (forbes?) that more than 90% patents are anyways useless. Most patents are to scare people like the average Joe that opens up a company and needs to be careful about a whole bunch of things. In reality, competition is so brutal that nobody gives a damn - and at very high levels, they will find a way out. Plus, to if we knew all the patents existing, there would be no new companies - you can't patent obvious stuff, yet they do it. Especially in our industry, we could have a better life without a lot of patents - mostly trivial stuff which shows how stupid our system is and why countries outside our system laugh at us. Hard-core stuff like covid vaccines and unique innovations which outside countries feel cybercrime is worth doing - that's probably the stuff you want to create a patent for. Although I have my own ethical view that vaccines and health-related discoveries should be open, but yeah, that's another topic. The rest is literally garbage that has to feed a broken system for the sake of keeping the system alive. USA is in some cases really worse than EU countries in terms of modernizing things.