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Comment by bsbechtel | Hacker News Reader

Who holds the review board accountable for making bad decisions vs the accountability of the courts? I think this question is just as important. Aside from that, I imagine it's far easier for a lobbyist to get someone who is industry friendly appointed to the review board vs appointed as a judge, which is concerning.

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That's one of the reasons for Gorsuch's dissent. I suggest you read it: it's quite clear and principled.

I think the Court's opinion is that the remedy to the courts is still available even after the board's decision, so it's fine. (I think this is good but an unfavorable board decision reversed by the courts later is going to have very bad effects on the businesses affected. Property rights need to be secure and uncertain property rights are _punished_ mightily by the market.)

Intellectual "Property" is an intentional misnomer used by IP holders as propaganda to support the idea that IP is "just like property."

It's not, because unlike property you can't establish that 100% of a project were your ideas and your ideas only. Every new project is a recombination of ideas. It's not 100% original.

If copyright and patents would be enforced perfectly and automatically, there would no longer be any new inventions.