Copying part of a response I made to another question:
Another point is that I think there is a role for nonprofits to play in monitoring and litigating the patent landscape. I support the appropriate use of IP, and when it works this incentivizes innovation that pushes advances that wouldn’t have been made otherwise. But there is a need to make sure the system is not abused, and that patents are not awarded to ideas that truly don’t meet the legal standards such as non-intuitiveness and originality.
Copying part of a response I made to another question:
Another point is that I think there is a role for nonprofits to play in monitoring and litigating the patent landscape. I support the appropriate use of IP, and when it works this incentivizes innovation that pushes advances that wouldn’t have been made otherwise. But there is a need to make sure the system is not abused, and that patents are not awarded to ideas that truly don’t meet the legal standards such as non-intuitiveness and originality.