The Patent office is useful if you are a major American corporation with a couple dozen corporate staff attorneys specializing in property rights. Otherwise it is a kind of vanity thing.
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"The Patent office is useful if you are a major American corporation with a couple dozen corporate staff attorneys specializing in property rights. Otherwise it is a kind of vanity thing."
Oh, brother. I've patented inventions to discourage havng the ideas stolen by competing companies. Vanity had nothing to do with it. It was about making money.