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Re:Stop Spotify Surveillance by hfjgktnrnf on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:51AM (#26738649)
This is what happens when you incentivize your employees to patent anything imaginable and possible.

Similar to the Amazon "wage cage" patent that spawned so many memes and bad press.

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Re:Stop Spotify Surveillance by kache_ on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:54AM (#26738681)
When I worked at IBM, I was explicitly told that I would be surprised with what I could patent, and that I should patent things even if they seemed trivial.

This went so against my ethos I quit and found another job.

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