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Patents with source code

Posted Aug 29, 2012 7:36 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Patents with source code by giraffedata
Parent article: Mobile patent wars: Google goes on the attack

> Can you patent an idea?

that's basically what you are doing.

It would be really nice if patents required some demonstration that they work, but that's not the case

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