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Scaling the Patent System (papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by quant18 5211 days ago
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"This paper posits a simple but novel answer to this long-puzzling question: firms ignore patents because they are unable to discover the patents their activities might infringe."

Novel? Puzzling? Really? If this answer is really considered novel or this question the slightest bit puzzling, then this might be the best unintentional example of the actual problem I've seen.