This is important. Patents are a good thing, people should be able to protect their intellectual property.
What needs to be fixed is the way these things are validated, it basically requires tying the whole thing up with lawyers for several years and thus makes the entire system susceptible to the exact kind of abuse you see coming from Acacia.
It can be worked the other way too. A little guy can have a perfectly valid patent and big companies with big money can starve him to death in the court system without ever paying him a dime.
The system is broken and should be fixed.
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