OTOH, if a company can only sustain its business model because it has the advantage of state protection, it necessarily means naturally defensible business products get less investment and artificially defensible business products get a bump. Which is better, is hard to say.

It should be clear however that patent and patent giving has massive costs on the state and a great boon to lawyers.

And at the same time, its still not enough, as you still need to do counter-espionage at companies anyway.