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Basically, unlike copyright, you don't even have to know that someone else patented something in order to infringe on a patent and have them come out of the woo
by vertex-four 6y ago
Basically, unlike copyright, you don't even have to know that someone else patented something in order to infringe on a patent and have them come out of the woodwork later. It's just even more expensive if you do know.
The patent system was not designed to have every tiny little technique patented, and this is its failure mode.
- anticensor 6y ago> It's just even more expensive if you do know. In the USA. Wilful and unwilful infringement of the patent costs the same in Europe.
- vertex-four 6y agoLuckily, software patents are unenforceable in the EU, so for many of us on this site that's irrelevant.