Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy
I do research in computer science and in the last few years, lots of trivial and dumb patents in my field appeared out of nowhere. However, I can only assume that they really are trivial because they are written in a way to claim a lot without actually describing how any of it works. These patents have 0% information in them. What&#x27;s more, they all read like a rewrite of papers that were published years ago  (before the date filed) into lawyer speak with no amount of information. I have no idea how any of these were ever granted since there is prior art all over the place.<p>Edit: Okay to be fair, there is maybe not 0% but 10% information in these patents, but it&#x27;s encoded into unintelligible lawyer&#x2F;patent talk that is not at all fit to convey technical information. They are written in a way to get a monoply on results without disclosing how these results are obtained.