Patents are not the only way to incentive innovation. You know what's a great way to incentive innovation yourself? Became an angel investor, those guys are inv

Patents are not the only way to incentive innovation. You know what's a great way to incentive innovation yourself? Became an angel investor, those guys are investing in innovation and pushing progress forward many orders of magnitude better than intellectual property is. Don't have enough money? Join an angel group, or fund a kickstarter project. I don't know about the us, but many.countries have programs to inventive innovative startups with funding, incubation and mentorship. Bottomline is, there are.still means to inventive innovation without granting monopolies. If intellectual property magically ceased to exist, men would still invent awesome stuff. You can have my word on that.