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by dsl
4780 days ago
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Don't confuse commonplace with simple. I think lots of people argue that a patent is trivial, because the idea has gained adoption and become universal. At the time of invention something might be totally groundbreaking, but a critical part of every household 10 years on. I'm not saying that is the case here (A quick Google search finds SecurID was released in ~1994-1995), but the dismissive attitude of patents in general because you've come to rely on the technology really irks me. |
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Why can't I just claim all software patents simple? You just have to be presented with the problem and have a smart person sit down long enough to come up with the solution. And often that's measured in hours or days once the problem is presented clearly. None of us are as smart as we think we are, even if the solution appears elegant.
They don't take thousands of different filament tests. Or massive amounts of research trials. No repeated prototype builds. Or anything that actually costs money apart from simply thought.
And worse still, there's often no other way to solve the problem than the patented way and as we see so often the idea is solved repeatedly by different people.
You might reasonably argue that realizing the problem exists is 90% of the work and that is expensive, but then you're really patenting a business processes just like one-click shopping or two factor authentication.