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Actually that's almost already the standard. I can't speak to the specifics of how it's enforced, but something is legally unpatentable if a pimple faced teen
by couchand 13y ago
Actually that's almost already the standard. I can't speak to the specifics of how it's enforced, but something is legally unpatentable if a pimple faced teen could develop it in a hackathon. The standard is whether it is non-obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoWhat people say the standard is is quite a different thing from what the standard actually is. Don't look at the text of the law, look at what gets patented and what doesn't. The text is irrelevant.