It was not patents that helped the iphone succeed, it was a massive river of cash and keeping the development mostly secret. All patents ensured was that androi

It was not patents that helped the iphone succeed, it was a massive river of cash and keeping the development mostly secret. All patents ensured was that android operated in a visually slightly different manner. Anyway, where is all this "innovation" that's supposedly worth caring about? It seems to me that patents stymie innovation by holding competitors hands behind their back (or even in the case of medicine, holding it off the market). > patents give them some runway to make a profit assuming one can defend those patents. I'd be shocked if this actually described even 1% of patents issued. Anyway, yea, fuck all intellectual property except maybe the first ten years of copyright held by actual humans.