In my happy little fantasy world, CS patents should lose their validity if a bachelor CS student/group of students can recreate the fundamentals (for a course/t

In my happy little fantasy world, CS patents should lose their validity if a bachelor CS student/group of students can recreate the fundamentals (for a course/thesis project), without knowledge of the patent. 1 click buying probably fails that. I'm on the fence about "lossy compression of audio files using wavelets, based on a psycho-acoustic model of hearing range" (aka mp3)