Ask HN: Is it possible to ship a physical product without infringing on patents?

> Do you really believe that everything worthwhile has an enforceable patent attached to it?

Isn't it so if to consider patent troll parties as existing?

I felt this way after participating in patent harvesting sessions at my employer, where they would collect patents from us without ever intending to reduce them to practice (in other words: use them), as well as researching some ideas in my spare time only to find that they were covered by extremely broad non-practiced patents as well.