I seriously doubt using the word rent in reference to patent license royalties is new

"Rent-seeking" is square 3B on my HN bingo card. See also:

  Regulatory capture
  Late-stage capitalism
  Walled garden
  An/The unreasonable...
  So...
  Period. Full stop
  I Mean…
  Streisand effect
  orthogonal
  trivial
  non-trivial
  {$person}'s Law | Axiom | Razor | Paradox
  Objectively
  Ship of Theseus
  Gatekeeping

It’s like the opposite of traditional tech buzzword bingo where you raise VC for blockchain crypto AI agents.

Instead, anything you don’t like is a rent-seeking late stage capitalism narrative.