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this might surprise you but this is actually by design, since the INCEPTION of the american patent office.

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison designed the first patent act (the third law ever passed in the USA) to be a strong recruiting tool for bringing engineers and inventors into the newly formed country. basically, if you invent something and don't patent it within a year of invention in the USA, it will be IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN for anyone to use. There's a strong incentive for inventors anywhere in the world to patent in the USA or they risk losing their right to the invention!

nowadays its easy to file a US patent from abroad through the PCT and foreign filing system but this aspect of american patent law remains.

Of course, if this patent was ever litigated it could easily be struck down in a court, but patent and IP litigation cases are THE MOST expensive types of cases to litigate, so in reality what will happen is this american company will just bully others into paying them license fees like every other patent troll until the patent expires.


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agreed. the average patent issued has negative value, but there are a few patents every year worth maybe hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.

mostly for drugs (like mounjaro) and microchip designs (like ARM)
the patent system is swamped with retarded incremental "inventions" submitted by bigcorps to secure promotions for middle managers