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by brlewis
5400 days ago
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If I'm an un-employed patent lawyer, why don't I just sit around reading tech news all day and patent every un-patented startup idea that comes up and sue the companies for their VC money? In theory, there are two reasons why you can't do this: (1) Patents don't cover abstract ideas, but specific embodiments of them. And (2) if you could patent an idea, that idea being written up in tech news would constitute prior art. In practice, nothing's stopping you from doing this. The patent system and patent law are only vaguely related beasts. |
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