Their own author says that prophetics are key to small businesses – they independently incentivize innovation which turns case.
Freilich 19 [Janet Freilich, writer and teacher in patent law, intellectual property, and civil procedure. She has published or has articles forthcoming in Science, the Review of Statistics and Economics, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and others. She has received the Fordham Law Dean's Distinguished Research Award, the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize, the Irving Oberman Memorial Award in Intellectual Property, and the Cloud Based Research Computing Project Award. Professor Freilich was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. She was Harvard Law School’s inaugural postdoctoral fellow in private law and intellectual property with the Program on the Foundations of Private Law. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology; 2019; Fordham Law School; “FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History”; https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/1006] shiwen
The theoretical case for prophetic examples rests on benefit to patentees. The Patent Act requires inventors to describe how to make and use their invention.18 Inventors often do this by writing experimental protocols and results in the patent. 19 For example, a patent on a diabetes medication might include an experiment showing how to synthesize the molecule and another showing that the molecule can be given to humans to reduce the need for insulin injections. 20 The broader the patent, the more experiments are required.21 A patent covering one molecule might only need to include one synthesis protocol, whereas a patent covering a family of one hundred molecules might need to include many more experiments.22 It is always faster and cheaper to make up data than to conduct real experiments, so if the experiments disclosed in the patent can be fictional, inventors will be able to file broader patents more easily.23 This should be particularly useful for small companies, who have small budgets and cannot afford extensive real experimentation.24 For companies of all sizes, broader patents provide a greater reward to the inventor, which might incentivize more innovation.