In China, there is an ingenuous loophole to reducing jail time– come up with a patent. It seems like a smart way to encourage innovation, but wealthy prisoners are using this to turn the system on its head AND flooding the patent office with a lot of junk. How are they able to do it, and how does it affect the rest of us?
Read more: http://gizmodo.com/prisoners-in-china…
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