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Re:How broken is the USPTO: How is this a patent by pnw_hazor on Sunday August 12, 2018 @07:55PM (#17747151)
The claims in the referenced patent are drafted to be extremely limited and inflexible. It would not apply to your product. You already get around it by considering geography.
Re:How broken is the USPTO: How is this a patent by DuskStar on Monday August 13, 2018 @02:14AM (#17748315)
Pretty sure adding an additional test not in the list doesn't exempt them from the patent. It's "at least one of" not "at least one of and nothing not in this list".