Patenting an invention is orthogonal to commercialising it. The point of patents is to sell abstract ideas: the basic interaction is to license a patent to some

Patenting an invention is orthogonal to commercialising it. The point of patents is to sell abstract ideas: the basic interaction is to license a patent to someone else. It's a coincidence if the same person who thinks up an invention, is also in a position to develop it fully. I think this meme -- that your patents are for your own products -- is an off-target response to patent trolling.