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What is a good patent

What is a good patent

Posted Nov 4, 2009 21:39 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)
In reply to: Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend by AlexHudson
Parent article: Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend

The best patent is not one that solves an obscure problem in a complicated way, quite the opposite! The best patent is simple, and solves a very common problem in the best ever way, so that everybody that has the problem (and that's a lot of people, as I said it is a very common problem) really wants to license the patent rather than using a free, inadequate solution.


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