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> Wouldn't all the groups continually fix what you chip away and then some?

Ah. Divide and conquer. Lawyers love rules/regulations/complexity because it usually means more $$$ for compliance efforts. You exploit a conflict of interest between the patent holder and their legal representation.

They will be fighting each other, while you weigh in for the most onerous changes.

> Do you have a more detailed description of how to break the patent system by adding more regulations to it

The problem with the patent system is that it works. You apply for a patent, you get a patent, you bash somebody's head in with the patent.

What you need is to insert many, many pain points along the way. Enough pain points and complexity that the system as whole, no longer functions.

The path to that is to find allies for each particular pain point. There will always be some group that will benefit through additional regulation. If that weren't the case, there would never be any regulations. All regulations are meant to make somebody's life better.

For example, the regulation for seatbelts in cars made seatbelt manufacturers happy. Etc, etc. Somebody always gets a cut, somebody always benefits.

So you systematically support and push regulation and promote the benefactors of said regulation. Your only challenge would be to come up with some beneficial reasoning for said regulation, to cover up the naked interest of the particular benefiting party.

Essentially, you just regulate it to death.




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