The current patent and "white paper" landscape is a farce. It has nothing to do with genuine innovation and everything to do with corporate vanity and resume padding.
Most of these filings are complete junk,technical jargon engineered specifically to game the system and bypass patent examiners. The only real "innovation" happening is in the art of writing applications that look novel on paper despite lacking any substantive value. It is a massive, expensive circus that produces nothing of merit.
It is time to be honest:
It’s pure marketing: Companies and individuals are using patents and AI-generated white papers as shallow promotional tools to project an image of expertise they don't actually possess.
The system is broken: The patent process was built for mechanical hardware, not software. Applying it to modern tech is like trying to use a horse-and-buggy manual to maintain a jet engine—it doesn't work, and it's obsolete.
The "Defensive" Reality: Major players know the system is a waste of time. Companies like Google often skip the patent process entirely, choosing to publish findings as a defensive move simply to prevent others from clogging the system with garbage patents.
We are wasting millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours on a system designed to protect ideas that aren't even worth protecting. It is time to stop pretending this serves the industry; it only serves the ego of the people writing the applications.