Re: Long term: Elephant in Room
USPTO makes more money by granting patents than refusing and lower costs by not checking that they are not too broad, not easily thought up by someone versed in the Art, not considering Prior Art (especially if not in USA or decades ago) and not considering novelty.
They are about making money and protecting the larger USA based Corporates. Not about patents as originally envisaged. But this problem started in the Victorian era. Edison exploited the system. Then from the 1920s it was RCA.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
