Hmmm:
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Patents themselves have become unfit for purpose. They no longer provide temporary protection for the patent holder in exchange for disclosure to society as a whole but are instead abused as trading cards to protect large institutions from innovation.
It's hardly surprising that the officers overseeing this failure are themselves the target of corruption, and that it sometimes succeeds in spades.
Yup, that reads more accurately.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
