Let's not be uncivil.
that's not what a patent does.
That is exactly what a patent does and that is all it does. It creates a monopoly, an artificial shortage, in order to reward the inventor by driving up the price of his invention.
A patent refers TO property - the invention itself.
No it doesn't. It refers to an idea. That's why it isn't property. And that's why copying a patented item isn't stealing.
You're not only wrong, you're a brazen liar. If you had a million dollar patented invention that was suddenly rendered community property by communists like you, you'd damn well call it stealing your property.
Where do you think inventions come from? You spit at creativity, insight, hard work and even genius with - what, exactly? Mere arrogance? Puerile declarations that intellectual property doesn't actually exist? All while thieves like you loot the plans and develop technology you couldn't dream of in a thousand years on your own, all while saying you didn't steal anything? What utter hypocrisy.
And as for "monopolies," it is an extremely limited form of that concept. In fact, it is compensation for the non-directly profitable energy reqirements of inventing the thing in the first place. How is that to be paid back to the inventor, if not through compensation of some sort that would keep it out of the hands of those like you who would loot it away from the person who invented it? How does that "drive up the price" when it never even existed before? With what would you compare it, to claim it has been driven "up"? Or would it simply be cheaper all around if the inventor was ripped off by big money players to begin with, by denying his property even exists? Is that who your represent - megacorps who want first grabs at inventions by virtue of sheer financial power, and to hell with the inventor?
Let's not be uncivil.
Your attempt ot justify theft and redefine property as nonexistent in order to legally enable that theft is the very definition of incivility - thief.
If ripping off peoples sweat and toil at the point of it’s bearing fruit isn’t theft, hell, we could just force them to work for people for free. If they didn’t like that, we could just beat them and threaten them at the barrel of a gun.