Circumstances like thickets are BETTER for businesses and economy
Egan and Teece, 2015 - innovation policy fellow, national bureau of economic research, professor in global business, “Untangling the Patent Thicket Literature, Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital”, https://www.haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/Tusher-Center-Working-Paper-7.pdf] JS
Finally, we argue that the intensity of the current policy debate on patent thickets is misplaced. Some scholars suggest that the rise of the high-technology industry has overburdened the patent system and caused a systematic failure. There are a number of economic circumstances that could, individually or in concert, cause such a failure, at least in theory. But there are also private and institutional arrangements that avert such a failure in practice. At present we have to say that the sky is not falling: All of the economic circumstances leading to patent thickets can only occur when an economy has rapid invention delivering substantial commercial benefits – this is a good economic problem that should be kept in its proper perspective.