“As many astute observers have pointed out”

It has been NEITHER “many” nor “astute.” It has been a small number of like-minded anti-patentists. What these people choose to “not remember” is the very purpose of the patent system to begin with: innovation begets MORE innovation – not less.

There is NOT a Charles Duell type of zero-sum total innovation possible, and the “Well it looks like we have invented everything possible” mindset is CLEARLY wrong.

“The public interest is shoved aside”

There is that tinf01l hat thing going on again…

Funny you never seem to want to address the dichotomy that you are against the form of innovation MOST accessible to that same “public” that is expressly NOT the scheming controlling ultra-rich that you want to dem0n1ze.

Why is that?

“flushes logic, common sense and sane policy down the tubes”

Scream the Red Queen: I have defined these things to be what I mean them to be when I mean them to be what I want them to be.

Never mind actual history, actual facts and actual law. Those things are just mere inconveniences for Malcolm and his Belieb system.

“with their awesome patent litigation schemes”

Because the tail of the flea on the tail of the dog known as the boogeyman of “Oh NOES, Litigation” and actual enforcement of rights is just so “horrendously bad” (at least for the Infringers’ Rights groups)….

“ is most of what the public gets from this incompetent sausage factory”

Funny then that you seem to always miss one of my main memes – and never seem to want to agree with me that the problem that needs focus is NOT the “awesome C R P” that you always peddle, but rather, a focus on doing the EXAMINATION job right the first time.

Why is that?

“But, hey, it’s all going to “trickle down” right? Sure it is.”

Where does this “trickle down” thing come from? NO ONE has ever put that argument up on these boards.

Do you really need me to post the definition of strawman and connect the dots to this bogus (class warfare) type of position that you alone have erected so that you can knock it down?

Maybe – just maybe – you want to take a moment and reflect just how the data here CONFIRMS my views and wrecks yours.

Of course, that would take some inte11ectual honesty and might make you put aside that short script of yours and come up with some original thinking.