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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by templarchamp on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:33PM (#25609753)
If you had patent, you could go after FB and have some out of court settlement.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by wwn_se on Sunday January 03, 2021 @12:59AM (#25619867)
In reality you can't. The upfront cost of defending a patent is huge, like hundreds of thousands.

Patents are fundamentally broken and really don't work like most think or want them to.

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