Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”
X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”
That’s the case today, it’s just that the patent office accepts far more patents than it should. Those patents absolutely don’t hold up in court, but it really shouldn’t get to that point either.
The problem here is enforcement, not law.
On March 16th, 2013, America passed the American Inventors Act, which transitioned the United States to a First-to-File system.
Ugh, gross. It did expand the definition of prior art though, but I think it’s worse on net.