Post #3143414

@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social Hi, patent attorney here, giving a sort of PSA I often drop when I stumble upon articles like this one. The way the system works, a very significant number of patents are not granted for things that any given company actually has, but rather for things that a company thinks that it might want to have in the future, and sometimes it's even just about having a bigger pile of patents to take into negotiations without any intentions of ever actually using the patented things.