A very well written Editorial with a nice learning for me. I always wondered why the movie industry sits in Hollywood 😉

We do certainly need patents to protect (real) innovation - but I also agree that this time frame must be limited.

Imagine if someone had a patent on the invention of the wheel for hundred years...would today's world look the same? How about the bicycle or the car?

But its calming to see that even big players (this time Apple) have sometimes to pay money to smaller companies: Apple recently licensed the design of the clock of the swiss train service - a design created 1944!