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Can they? What if the process is patented?

• bennyg 13y ago
  By 3 different corporations?
  • rmrfrmrf 13y ago
    licensing.
    • bennyg 13y ago
      Then they can do the same thing. It's a non-argument, my favorite of the HN tropes.
• iSnow 13y ago
  Obviously PayPal, which is way smaller than Google, was able to pay to this developer.
• deong 13y ago
  You can't patent "compliance with the law", and you can't pass a law that requires licensing of a patent to be in compliance. So no, the "process" of being legally allowed to sell items in a country is not and cannot be patented.