Think about what allows the toxic management company to thrive, eg, by becoming the principal (part of it is an identity problem I pointed to in sibling comment)
The garden hose example is a good faith scenario but maybe it still feels icky to you because they arent the "genuine inventors" :)
How are they going to prove that? Put up a diff tree of their improvements?
That's an example of tripartite problem (innovators/IP-arbitrageurs/commercializers) that's easy to oversimplify to a bipartite one (NPE vs "practicians") by inadequate notation
There are those who don't believe in institutions because these are always made of minds "not like theirs". And there are those who believe in institutions because some are made of minds "just like theirs".
https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2013504542A5/ja
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/biomedical-researchers-l...
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