| Following up on one comment I made: > There is one true and important point in the article that isn't supported by the example given I can't actually vouch for the "true and important" part. I must confess I put that in there to try to be nicer about what I was saying. :-) And it certainly seemed plausible enough that patents would be deliberately written in obfuscated language, I just can't say it's true or untrue from my own knowledge. I know pixels better than patents. There's a great comment here that sheds some light on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6085888 In particular, there are reasons for some of the language that seems obfuscated. Read the comment for details and a lot of insight into patents. Another interesting comment, with a link to a patent examiner's AMA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087057 (Of course there are interesting comments all up and down this thread!) |