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Re:StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping by alexchamberlain on Monday October 31, 2011 @03:20AM (#3176667)
How is this substantially new? This type of article makes the US patent system laughable.
Re:StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping by alexro on Monday October 31, 2011 @08:00AM (#3177098)
The patent thing may look laughable from the outside but inside the US it's pretty much required by how everything in business has been set up - to squeeze everything out of anyone using so-called 'legal' methods.

The legal system in the US is basically a self-feeding machine that produces crap you have to pay for.