Nuclear deterrence for patents: let’s create a network of defensive patents

Jennifer Urban writes for Wired, February 21, 2013

I propose (with Jason Schultz) that innovators should—even must—opt back in to the patent system if they wish to protect themselves from the growing threats patents pose…. Why? Because if all innovators obtain patents that they commit to keeping for defensive purposes only—linking them together into a defensive network—we can take the patent system as it exists today and use it to create a bulwark against its own worst features.