This is getting silly. Just abolish the patent system.

This is almost identical to the mafia business.

There are bunch of patent-pool mafias in the world and you pays the protection money to one of the patent-pool mafias so you will be protected from other patent-pool mafias.

If it looks like a mafia and quacks like a mafia, it's mafia.

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