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How about some reality please?
My primary job in Information Security is to mitigate risk as much as possible. There is no way to remove risk (unless you don't do something at all). It is a commonly repeated myth that risk can be 0. Patents are a risk reduction tool. They bring risk to an acceptable level so that progress can happen. If you eliminated risk reduction, the only option would be don't do something... This would kill progress. To declare them worthless because of people that abuse the system is ludicrous (at minimum). Especially, considering that the support for your claim is nonexistent.
My primary job in Information Security is to mitigate risk as much as possible. There is no way to remove risk (unless you don't do something at all). It is a commonly repeated myth that risk can be 0. Patents are a risk reduction tool. They bring risk to an acceptable level so that progress can happen. If you eliminated risk reduction, the only option would be don't do something... This would kill progress. To declare them worthless because of people that abuse the system is ludicrous (at minimum). Especially, considering that the support for your claim is nonexistent.