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Agreed. I'm sure everyone on hacker news who has done anything has violated some patent in existence somewhere. The quicker we can abolish the whole system, the
by axod 18y ago
Agreed. I'm sure everyone on hacker news who has done anything has violated some patent in existence somewhere.
The quicker we can abolish the whole system, the better. I don't think it's helpful for anyone.
The award of $19m is also pretty ridiculous for something so trivial.
- jrockway 18y agoThe award of $19m is also pretty ridiculous for something so trivial. Yeah, but they willfully used a good idea to make money. We should penalize companies that apply good ideas to bring products to market. Don't want any of that...
- axod 18y agoJust goes to show that ideas aren't worthless, assuming you have the money to file a patent and sue someone who executed on the idea.
- jballanc 18y agoThe award of $19m is also pretty ridiculous for something so trivial. To put it into perspective, this is only about 0.06% of Apple's cash reserve.
- axod 18y agoTo put it into perspective, it probably took a couple of days to come up with the idea, and file the patent. Probably cost a few k. Quite a nice ROI.