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Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.

If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

People have to respect intellectual property.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.