> but we’ve gotten far enough this is a partial misconception, at least in the US the difference between then and now isn't that the patent law was majorly im

> but we’ve gotten far enough this is a partial misconception, at least in the US the difference between then and now isn't that the patent law was majorly improved or that patent offices better apply the theoretic bars for quality, intuitiveness, etc. (actually many countries still measure their patent offices by nr. patents granted, setting very bad insensitives.) the actual difference is a small number of concerns own such a shitload of "unreasonable" patents that they could more or less nuke the whole economy and decided its best for them to put them into a pool and not touch them this is pretty much a ticking time bomb