How about in Europe?

When society is generally so structurally invested in the existence of some system of sectoral governance, such that removing its influence from your sphere of concern (where it may be more malign than benign) is essentially impossible, then you have to look instead at how you can use that system against itself to protect your concerns.

Basically, seems we need to have strong "open source" patent pools. E.g., perhaps ones like http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/ .