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This is the stuff the patent system is _supposed_ to protect
by exabrial 3y ago
This is the stuff the patent system is _supposed_ to protect
- Trellmor 3y agoMaybe in 1912 https://patents.google.com/patent/US1059545 https://patents.google.com/patent/US1059545
- s0rce 3y agoIt did, from 1912-1930.
- max51 3y agoIt's literally the opposite of what patents were supposed to protect. They are trying repackage an old technology they did not create and are threatening to sue everyone else making it. This product already existed before these "inventor" were even born. The original innovator who made this product already profited from it and are long gone from the market.
- ecf 3y agoA Chinese machinist is already selling these on Alibaba while the American machinist attempts to repatent something invented a century ago. One wants to produce a tool that helps others make cool stuff, one wants to rip off an inventors design to try to pass it off as his own. This is everything the patent system is supposed to protect AGAINST. Differences in societal values I guess.