Meant to be a way to incentivize invention, meant to be a way to orchestrate the dissemination of knowledge, they are increasingly being used by large companies to create thickets of patents to prevent innovation taking place.
発明を促すのではなく 知識の普及を組織化するのでもなく 大企業はこうした制度で 特許という障壁を巡らし 発明を邪魔しています