Private Equity is already here. 

If you have something to protect, you should've trademarked everything ages ago. I know some commies want to make everything unpatentable and untrademark-able but for long haul protocol R&D the originator has to get something back unless you believe grifting is ok. 

Grifting is not OK, OKAY?

You are not entitled to take in unlimited quantity from people whose decades of original research was never compensated for.