I agree. And I'd further add that it's quite likely that the time wasted and inefficiencies caused by having to deal with the trifling issue of font IP handsome

I agree. And I'd further add that it's quite likely that the time wasted and inefficiencies caused by having to deal with the trifling issue of font IP handsomely exceeds the combined revenue of all font foundries on earth. The top 500 or so fonts should just be moved into the public domain en masse so we can forget about this ridiculous issue once and for all. Sucks if you're a foundry but you don't get to collect windfall profits for the rest of your life just because you made a slightly more attractive capital A a few months before someone else would have done the same, and the cost of administrating that "property" far outweighs any benefit such a property regime might theoretically deliver.