It depends entirely on your field. I spent most of my career as an engineer working on R&amp;D for software that would likely sit in a baseband in a production implementation. We spent millions of dollars building it, and nothing comparable is publicly available. The secret sauce in a baseband is definitely the sort of thing that&#x27;s in short supply. And it&#x27;s software.<p>That said, the patent office may not be qualified to distinguish between something that someone whipped together and something that took a team of PhDs years to invent. And maybe that problem is an intractable one.