[throwaway1105q]

What about patents? That might stop your idea even if you didn't know about the patent at all.

[baq]

Patents aren't stopping anyone in Shenzen.

[throwaway1105q]

Patents are stopping people from using non specific software code (ideas) all around the world.

[the_panopticon]

Some interesting links on topic at bottom of https://www.rioslab.org/2023/04/14/open-source-hardware-ip-r...