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Re:Comment on the USPTO guidelines restoring software patents by howard941 on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:56PM (#19342081)
Sheer volume is worth something. Perhaps only a little after the fiasco at the FCC with the forged net neutrality comments.
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Re:Comment on the USPTO guidelines restoring software patents by tptacek on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:04PM (#19342163)
Isn't the FCC process actually explicit about the fact that number-of-votes isn't a factor? I don't know where I read this, but I feel like I read something about the regulatory feedback process and thought to myself "this is exactly how AfD at Wikipedia work" (where voting is also useless and actually counterproductive).
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Re:Comment on the USPTO guidelines restoring software patents by howard941 on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:41PM (#19342475)
If volume isn't expressly ruled out as a factor it probably ought to be.
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Re:Comment on the USPTO guidelines restoring software patents by slavik81 on Friday March 08, 2019 @05:11PM (#19342710)
For the unfamiliar, AfD is "Articles for Deletion"
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