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.”
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.