Working Around Patents with Evolutionary Design

An anonymous reader writes "Using computational trial-and-error allowed a Stanford team to come up with a patent-free WiFi antenna. Patent rules are tricky to formulate as self-interest dictates that the claim is as general as possible. Patent fences effectively can build a substantive competitive barrier to markets. Using evolutionary tactics may be a way to legally and ethically bypass these roadblocks."

Comments

Evolved antennas at NASA

[Anonymous Coward]

Efficient antennas 'designed' by evolution are already in use on spacecraft.