The issue at point with the patent system is that it was intended to incentivize innovation, and the evolution of the State of the Art. The building of large general patent portfolios by wielded by NPE's as a financial instrument does the exact opposite.
So while you might "net out", said netting out is not helping society actually advance, in fact it makes it more difficult to do so as you try to avoid potholes created by patent x-1 in your own journeys to actually innovate/invent.
The moment you get a self'sustaining finance engine implementable from a legal construct, it will be beaten reoeatedly, as fast and hard as possible til all the money possible can be extracted.
So while you might "net out", said netting out is not helping society actually advance, in fact it makes it more difficult to do so as you try to avoid potholes created by patent x-1 in your own journeys to actually innovate/invent.
The moment you get a self'sustaining finance engine implementable from a legal construct, it will be beaten reoeatedly, as fast and hard as possible til all the money possible can be extracted.