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A comment on Patents Are Eating the World and Hurting Innovation. Parent comment

Re:Patents Are Eating the World and Hurting Innovation by olefoo on Friday June 27, 2014 @03:04AM (#7953012)
> Patents still play a very key role is spurring innovation and allowing innovative players to profit off of their development and creation of new products.

What is your evidence for this statement?

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Re:Patents Are Eating the World and Hurting Innovation by Goronmon on Friday June 27, 2014 @06:53AM (#7953449)
I would say that patents seem to mainly be profitable for lawyers and the companies that employ them rather than "innovative players".
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