> The metastatic growth of the patent system was a goal of the patent bar. Back then, I was a baby lawyer in one of the largest patent-law firms in the U.S. I

> The metastatic growth of the patent system was a goal of the patent bar. Back then, I was a baby lawyer in one of the largest patent-law firms in the U.S. I don't remember metastatic growth being discussed as an explicit goal, but there's no question that patent attorneys, on both the plaintiff- and defense sides, welcomed the greater prestige and income that went with litigating bet-the-product-line infringement lawsuits.