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Re:E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper by deeviant on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:04PM (#25817379)
The whole "innovate" word is just loaded and overblown.

Many software patents written today cover average work done by average engineers to solve average problems in a way that if you asked 100 engineers to solve said problem, the majority of them would could up with exactly the method in the patent.

Software patents are just a truncheon for incumbent companies to wield against other companies unlucky enough to try to enter the same space as patent-holding incumbent.

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Re:E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper by est31 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:12PM (#25817417)
I agree with you about the software patents. They should go in the places they still exist. My statement was mainly meant about non-software patents. Sometimes a lot of research/experimentation/thought goes into a single patentable invention.
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