[YokoZar]

If you would like to attend one of these meetings and make a point while making everybody laugh, I suggest telling a fictitious story about the time you wanted to learn how to implement a software technology by looking up an expired patent on it.

The fact that this idea is a literal joke should be quite revealing. Patents are supposed to be comprehensible. They're supposed to be the alternative of trade secrets. They're supposed to be a means by which the public learns how to do non-obvious things once they expire.