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It's always been possible to patent a sufficiently good improvement on existing things. Otherwise nothing at all would be patentable.
by ChrisLomont 4y ago
It's always been possible to patent a sufficiently good improvement on existing things. Otherwise nothing at all would be patentable.
- defterGoose 4y agoTaking a piece of software (or even a well-defined algorithm, really) that's meant to compress data, and then claiming that using it to compress video is novel is stupid though. Any type of digital asset is, in fact, "data".
- heavenlyblue 4y agoI am getting patents for compressing cats videos and black cat videos right away!
- ChrisLomont 4y agoYes, if that is all they had done, then it would not be defensible. However, what you simplify is not what they patented (and subsequently dropped).