&gt; I own a few patents, as I&#x27;m sure many on Hacker News do. As I write this, I&#x27;m in the middle of a patent lawsuit with Square (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plainsite.org&#x2F;dockets&#x2F;24u13j6tr&#x2F;california-northe..." rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plainsite.org&#x2F;dockets&#x2F;24u13j6tr&#x2F;california-northe...</a>). I don&#x27;t apologize for it. I&#x27;m not a troll. I&#x27;m an inventor and I made a real product.<p>That&#x27;s great you made a real product. So many who file patents don&#x27;t end up creating real products. But the problem here is you made a real product that&#x27;s pretty generic much akind to the patents of &quot;input devices changes display on output device&quot; kind of patents. It&#x27;s an abuse of the system that many are working to eradicate.<p>So I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re going to find any support on HN for it. It&#x27;s great you&#x27;re not like the typical patent troll since you claim you made a product (of which I have not verified but I give you the benefit of the doubt) but obvious design patents hurt innovation. Hell to some degree all patents hurt innovation but the obvious designs are the most egregious in my opinion.