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"Patents are fundamentally broken. They should all be thrown out!"

• raganwald 15y ago
  Nonsense, just throw the obvious ones out!
  • Retric 15y ago
    No, we should only grant obvious patents! They expire the 3rd Sunday after the second full moon. Also the application should cost 1 billion dollars and must be written is Sanskrit. More seriously, rather than trying to only throw obvious ones out I would suggest applicants submit a bounty on each patent to be paid out when prior art is discovered. Or returned after 5 years. The patent office can then charge a small fee to compare prior art to a patent or patent application and it becomes expensive and pointless to submit most dumb patents without costing the taxpayers anything.
  • beatle 15y ago
    They are obvious because someone (the patent holder) MADE them obvious.