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Re:Apple Patent on Touch Typing, Multitouch Upheld; Allows B... by aetherson on Monday October 21, 2013 @11:20AM (#6586071)
Empirically, we know that in, say, the 1990's, when hardly any software patents happened, software companies still innovated. Are you trying to suggest that there has been some kind of fundamental economic shift since then that has made innovation impossible in the absence of patents? What is that shift?

What are these stories about small businesses and new inventors getting screwed by people who steal their ideas? It seems to me that you're the one arguing based on emotion -- your post is full of dire warnings without any attempt to back them up.

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Re:Apple Patent on Touch Typing, Multitouch Upheld; Allows B... by rmrfrmrf on Monday October 21, 2013 @12:30PM (#6586575)
The one that comes to mind is the FuzziBunz brand of reusable diapers. If you follow Shark Tank, you may have seen the owner on there lamenting about patent infringement -- an employee of hers that was responsible for coordinating the outsourcing of her product to China then abruptly left the company and started her own line of FuzziBunz clones using the same factory.
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