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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

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

If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

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

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.

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

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

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 you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.