The US-led imaginary property system was at least administered in mostly good faith, encouraging actual competition amongst the administrative class benefiting from it. And it <i>still</i> produced endless make-litigation garbage like "Method and Apparatus for Banging Two Rocks Together... Near a Computer"<p>Whereas now this system has expanded to a different center of power with different strategic goals, quite content to operate closer to the barer reality (aka <i>hack</i>). And when a document can create a claim of legal claim of ownership over the ways everyone else can do things, the fundamental incentive is just to generate as many of those documents as possible.