[rundev]

1. If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. 2. Patents wouldn't be as forceful if they didn't last that long. A decade or more is basically forever in a fast-moving field like tech.

[itsoktocry]

>If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue.

Sounds like something a VC would say.

Have you considered that inventing things and selling them are two different skill sets?

The patent system needs reform, not elimination.

[financltravsty]

Why would you artificially encumber a significant invention from benefitting the world just because you don't have the wherewithal to sell it?

Seems awfully self-centered.