[thrmsforbfast]

That's called an apartment building. Or a large house with many bedrooms. Both happen all the time.

In fact, just last weekend I let 20+ people into my house for a party. The notion of privately owned property didn't suddenly become absurd at the beginning of that party...

"Exclusive right to use" is not unique to intellectual property, nor is the ability to scale a piece of private property from 1 user to N concurrent users.

[pixl97]

At the same time you cannot tell your neighbor that they are not allowed to build apartments.

[dragonwriter]

And you can't tell people not to develop new patentable inventions, either.

You can stop them from infringing your patent, just as you can prevent your neighbor from building an apartment building on your real estate.