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VIA Wants iPad, iPhone Banned in USA
bloody000:
If we invalidate patents own by those who does not actually make things we would be basically telling all small-time inventors to go fuck themselves.
There's also FRAND licensing for technically essential patents.
newy:
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/09/largest-us-wireless-carrier-verizon.html
You reap what you sow, macFAGS!
vuzedome:
This is actually good for macfags, they get to look hip again, since most people will be going android making Apple products look niche again.
surdumil:
Think of patents as the failure of an idea and fuel for packs of lawyers.
Think of patents as a gigantic heel grinding innovation into the dirt, then stomping on it many, many times.
When you can successfully patent a simple light switch or a simple, well-known algorithm, or an obvious arrangement of pixels, then the patent system has become worse than useless. It becomes an impediment, a retardant, an irritant, an infectious boil oozing the foulest stench imaginable, a bad thing.
Patents are for greedy sewers (suers), not for thinkers or problems solvers.
Avoid them. Keep your inventions hidden. If you sell your ideas, make sure you can one-up them first.
rostheferret:
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Sometimes. There are drawbacks to the system in place but it's usage is still valid when properly applied, and when lawsuits occur it should be for invalid usage. Though that said there are some silly loopholes. You know Gene Simmons of KISS owns the patent rights to calling Orange Juice "OJ"?!?!?! I mean, seriously...
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