[orlp]

I looked at the patent EP3337077B1... It is utter rent-seeking nonsense.

Patents are supposed to be for innovation, the patent literally just claims adding a field to a packet indicating if it's for a single user or multiple is a novel invention.

[ocean2]

You may want to read claim 1 of the patent publication again. The claim indicates that a specific field is used for different purposes depending on a transmission mode. It is not an arbitrary or obvious choice to use the HE-SIG A field to indicate the number of scheduled users or the number of symbols in the HE-SIG B field.

Do you have any examples where any packet field is used to indicate a number of users or symbols?

[orlp]

I had cause and effect backwards of the field contents. I typically refuse to read patents so the language is rather foreign and confusing to me.

Either way, reinterpreting a field depending on the mode of communication is equally not novel.

[hcfman]

Patents are never about innovation. Not in a sense that applies to everyone.

I still think that all law suites should be paid for by the government. Both defence and offence. This would have a sort of balancing out effect and then make law actually be more applicable for everyone.

Maybe sounds radical. But think about it. In a democracy law should be equally useful to all citizens. It clearly is not.