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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
I think not.
A company has to pay more than the lousy 56 $ to file a patent, it's not automatically granted, it costs to "maintain" it after granting, and,
more important,
it lasts only 20 years since the filing date.
Also a patent won't bring 80 million $ in the first weekend in movie theatres.
ANd it's teritorially restrcited (or pay more to have it enforced also in Senegal, or China, or N Korea).
But in one respect the patents try to emulate copyrights, they will eventually be applied to everything that is born out of the human mind.
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I think you do not understand what is happening with patents in the US. Large corporations build big patent portfolios to give them leverage when making agreements with their competitors. Individual patents may not be particularly important, but as an aggregate, they yield a lot of leverage. Look at the patent battles between Apple and Samsung. Technology moves at such a pace that in many cases a patent is obsolete after 10 years, much less 20.