[3pt14159]

Because I think the bar is too low, but I would want to be able to use my patents to defend myself or companies I like from aggression.

Put differently: In an ideal world there would be maybe 10 thousand patents awarded per year. Real, hardcore research patents, like the stuff Intel or GE would need to justify their insane research budgets. But if there are millions of patents out there every single one of us has broken them, we may as well patent stuff in order to have ammunition against shitty aggressive companies.