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The real problem is that patents have become an intellectual land grab, no matter how obvious, whether or not violators were even aware of the patents, and whet
by octonion 12y ago
The real problem is that patents have become an intellectual land grab, no matter how obvious, whether or not violators were even aware of the patents, and whether or not the patenting company has any interest whatsoever is using the patent in an actual product. The majority of inventions are not strokes of genius - when the time is right, ideas emerge naturally and tend to be invented by multiple people around the same time.