• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    This would be funny to try, have them fight and win? And immediately invalidate every single “familiar thing but on the internet” trash that the USPTO has been allowing for the past 30 years

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      3 hours ago

      I really have no idea.

      And that’s saying something, because I wrote a few papers, on the DMCA in particular, as well as how the copyright/patent system works (and should probably be reformed) specifically irt to computer software, whilst getting a BSc in Econ and a BA in Poli Sci…

      … and …

      … just fuck all this, its so fucking obvious that the system is in so many ways just designed to work only for entities with stupendous amounts of money.