This! What the author describes is exactly what happens. Our lawyers even admit that. The company I work for gets sued for a bogus patent every week(!), so we

This! What the author describes is exactly what happens. Our lawyers even admit that. The company I work for gets sued for a bogus patent every week(!), so we were all ask to file patent applications. I didn't, but I got involved in some applications as co-inventor anyway. This isn't - and not been for a long time - about inventions.