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by nitrogen 5920 days ago
This, if true, completely flies in the face of the expectation that patents are not obvious to, and can be read and understood by, a person skilled in the art. No average software engineer could implement a system based on reading its patent, and no average software engineer would think these sorts of patents are inventive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_in...

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