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0 pointscar12y ago0 comments

I wholeheartedly agree. If this were true, we wouldn't need a patent system.

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gnaritas12y ago· 2 in thread

Patents don't cover ideas, they cover implementations of those ideas.

There are patents on time machines and those that break the laws of thermodynamics. Because many patents lies at an abstract cross road midway between idea and execution.

gnaritas12y ago

The patents are still on proposed implementations, not on the idea itself.

hobb000112y ago

Arguably, the patent system is about execution, not ideas. Science fiction authors have been providing cool ideas for free for some time now.

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