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This is still a common practice, the difference is ordinary people have mostly been cut out between the switch to first-to-file and routine abuse of the patent
by yummypaint 1y ago
This is still a common practice, the difference is ordinary people have mostly been cut out between the switch to first-to-file and routine abuse of the patent and trademark system. This is how apple got Samsung's phones forcibly pulled from markets for rounding the corners using the same curves highway engineers had been using for half a century before. Whether or not one believes the patent system is fully corrupted yet, it's undeniably coin operated.
- Retric 1y agoPlenty of phones had rounded corners without being pulled from the shelves so obviously something else was going on. Samsung deliberately aimed for imitation and it bit them.
- Retric 1y agoWhat nobody talks about is the phones Samsung was allowed to put back on the shelves also had rounded corners. But don’t let the truth get in the way of a rant.