Re:Patent trolls put brakes on S.F. transit app
by nitrogen on Saturday August 31, 2013 @11:12PM
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Someone came up with the idea before you
Hardly; most newsworthy cases are of patents that have sufficient prior art in academia and industry that they should have been rejected in the first place, and/or are so blindingly obvious that every failed Y2K-era dot com considered and rejected them as a pivot while they were shredding their stock for use as packing material.
Hardly; most newsworthy cases are of patents that have sufficient prior art in academia and industry that they should have been rejected in the first place, and/or are so blindingly obvious that every failed Y2K-era dot com considered and rejected them as a pivot while they were shredding their stock for use as packing material.