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Re:Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases by chii on Friday June 04, 2021 @01:14AM (#27390826)
instead of fixing patent law?

Why not "just" change the way patents are granted, so that it can only be granted to actually non-obvious patents that don't have any prior art etc?

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Re:Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases by trok on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:41AM (#27404925)
Obviously the patent law should be changed. However I do not see that happening in my lifetime or possibly ever.
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