I suggest that you are not familiar with the spirit. It has nothing to do with protecting consumers. It has everything to do with encouraging innovation/inventi

I suggest that you are not familiar with the spirit. It has nothing to do with protecting consumers. It has everything to do with encouraging innovation/invention that will eventually be freely available to the public. To achieve that goal, investors need time to make their R&D investment back, plus enough profit to make the venture/risk worthwhile.