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patents have a pretty short lifespan compared to copyright, so patent trolls can't leverage them for very long. The alternative would be a gold rush every time
by throwawayk7h 3y ago
patents have a pretty short lifespan compared to copyright, so patent trolls can't leverage them for very long.
The alternative would be a gold rush every time a good idea is had. It would be chaos.
Patents could be shorter though. Ten years?
- dghlsakjg 3y agoPatents, especially computing patents, need to be less general as well. If you can accidentally stumble into multiple patent violations without even trying, they aren't really novel ideas by definition. For example "slide to unlock" is a digital patent, but I would argue that any number of physical implementations predate it, and the motion itself isn't novel or unique enough to merit a patent.
- interestica 3y agoMy back door has a literal 'slide to unlock.'