Re:YogaGlo Patent Dropped
by bhhaskin on Friday October 31, 2014 @10:25AM
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This is a good example of why patent law is broken. I can understand patenting manufacturing process or designs, but you shouldn't be able to patent and idea such as an online shopping cart or a certain way to film something.
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Re:YogaGlo Patent Dropped
by none_for_me_thx on Friday October 31, 2014 @11:47AM
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It seems that this is the whole point of patent law. It's a subsidy to people with access to money and power. That it may be used to some effect by smaller interests is a "happy" by-product of the scheme.
Once you grant that ideas are property and should be protected in the same way, it seems to me that this is the inevitable result.