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Re:No last-minute reprieve, US ban on some Apple Watch sales... by tensor on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @03:28PM (#38775718)
Paying arbitrary fees to someone who filed paperwork first does not promote any sort of "cooperation", unless your idea of cooperation is one person paying money and one collecting it and giving nothing in return.
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Re:No last-minute reprieve, US ban on some Apple Watch sales... by jocaal on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:14PM (#38776129)
> ...giving nothing in return

Patent law is there, because creating original work is costly and can take years in engineering and scientific fields. The patents are there to give a time-window for the people who made the investments to make their money back and get some return on their investment.

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