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Re:The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple by literallyWTF on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:17AM (#26759369)
Wow. So anyone with a half baked idea can make and own a patent??
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Re:The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple by viraptor on Saturday April 10, 2021 @07:52AM (#26760808)
Worse: anyone whose employer thinks they have an idea may own a patent. There's an application on my name that I refused to sign and provided prior art instead. But corps gonna corp.
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Re:The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple by dt3ft on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:23AM (#26759396)
Pretty much. It's appalling.
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