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Re:Chinese government reveals Microsoft’s secret list of And... by carrotleads on Monday June 16, 2014 @08:03PM (#7902177)
When I see such legalese style writing, I search for the first fullstop.

here it comes after 716 characters 0r 130 words. After this they seem to be lot more frequent.

Looks like the idea was to put people to sleep after 5 seconds.

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Re:Chinese government reveals Microsoft’s secret list of And... by axman6 on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @02:38AM (#7903135)
Claims are supposed to be written in the form of one sentense. Claims are not instructions on how to construct the invention, they are a legal definition of the scope of things that would infringe the invention. The language used is supposed to be precise, not generally easy to read prose. Reading a patent properly takes some training and experience, just like reading any other technical literature.
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