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Re:Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security P... by icebraining on Thursday May 23, 2013 @10:40AM (#5757035)
Patents aren't supposed to protect ideas.
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Re:Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security P... by genwin on Thursday May 23, 2013 @10:43AM (#5757062)
It's a process, which is patentable.
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Re:Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security P... by drucken on Thursday May 23, 2013 @11:23AM (#5757316)
In the US and virtually only the US.
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Re:Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security P... by genwin on Thursday May 23, 2013 @11:39AM (#5757426)
No other country matters, according to the US. If a company in another country does business in the US it can be sued in Eastern Texas (patent trolls' heaven).
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