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> No invention ever came out of nowhere, based on nothing more than hard work and selfless involvement

Straw man. No-one has suggested that the inventor invented something in a complete vacuum without support from society.




And yet that's exactly what the patent model claims: The invention is the fruit of a single mind who must get the entirety of money ever produced by the commercialization of the product. It is a glorification of individualism


Clearly not. At the trite level, you can have a patent with multiple authors. But more generally, many patents are small incremental improvements on existing device. In this case, the patent only covers that incremental improvements. Overly broad claims in patents tend to lead to them getting invalidated.


The Patent model doesn't claim that at all, it assumes the opposite. That's one reason why patents are public.




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