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littleGreenDude18-Mar-15 6:44
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Mark_Wallace17-Mar-15 10:04
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It's how patent trolls work. They patent a rough idea on how something might possibly work, then sue the cr@p out of anyone who does something that even slightly resembles that rough idea.

Just look at the verbiage: "can automatically modify or destroy one or more targets in the blood that have an adverse health effect".

It's a monstrous patent for technology that does not, and cannot yet, exist, which can only be used to steal funds from people who could actually make something like that work.

I've always been largely in favour of the "If you can't provide empirical proof that it works, you can't have a patent for it" concept, but, given what has been going on over the last few years, I've begun to see it as a necessity.


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I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!


modified 17-Mar-15 16:21pm.

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