It's not just actually innovative patents that are missing from the patent system (which they are). It has also become so expensive to both file and litigate a patent that only big businesses and patent trolls can afford it.

The median cost to litigate a patent is five fucking million dollars (in 2021). What this means is that if your patented solution isn't worth at least 2x that amount it is quite simply not worth patenting.

The whole system should be scrapped. It was fundamentally flawed from the start and has demonstrated over and over again that it does not scale. It's not even worth it to keep pharmaceutical patents (there's other, better, cheaper ways to come up with new drugs than $100 billion dollar commercial entities ripping us all off and spending half their budgets on marketing).

Exactly, patents that is simply describing obvious stuff like "Method for sharing and searching playlists" (it actually exists) should be rejected or get just 3 years max

Stuff like this took more time/money in filing the patent application than the actual development

Strstasys is absolutely feeling Bambu, as well as all the other consumer printer companies. Their revenue has been flat for years. Every time I get into a thread on engineering printers the almost universal consensus is "unless you need really big build volumes like the Fortus series, there is no point to Stratasys for the cost". And they're right. The x1c and x1e's can do effectively everything that an f170 can for like 1/20th the price.