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Working Around Patents with Evolutionary Design

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the survival-of-the-most-original dept.

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."

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  1. The innovation /. needs? by shanen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    P.S. The innovation that /. needs is to dump the metamoderation and fix the moderation. No patents available there.

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    Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.