How can I know what is an important patent?

-An important patent is one that does some of the following:

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-Earns a lot of licensing income.

-Sells for a lot of money.

-Lets the owner make a lot of money while preventing competition from doing the same.

-Inventions that are valuable to society and the world at large are important inventions.

-If the patent is sought, issued, and exploited for unconscionable profit, then the patent is

important, but in a negative way.

-If the invention is important and the inventor wants to make it freely available, the inventor doesn’t seek a patent, but publicly discloses the details. That’s what IBM did with the scanning tunneling microscope, making it freely available to the world.

Source: Quora