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I declare that I patented human breathing. Every human who is breathing is to pay me the, really very cheap, fee of 1 cent per day. O there is a tax? So now I o
by cjfd 3y ago
I declare that I patented human breathing. Every human who is breathing is to pay me the, really very cheap, fee of 1 cent per day. O there is a tax? So now I only get half a cent per day per living being.
- gruez 3y agoYou probably joking, but that wouldn't work because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art. All the "bad" patents were probably novel at the time they filed. That's not the issue. The issue is that they're for arguably obvious stuff like "[x] but on internet/phone" that the sibling commenter is talking about.
- cjfd 3y agoRead the comment that I am responding to. 'letting legalese define good/bad patent, we should let the economics work it out.' If 'legalese' cannot define good/bad patent anymore, there is nothing stopping such a silly patent that I propose.