stackyFACTSThis is what happens when corporate bureaucracy achieves inception. Halliburton legitimately secured a patent on the process of patent acquisition itself. By outlining a flowchart of how to manage intellectual property, they highlighted how broken the system is, allowing massive firms to build legal moats out of sheer administrative paperwork.
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