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Why There Are Too Many Patents In America

Posted by timothy on from the this-posner-guy-seems-pretty-smart dept.

whitroth writes "The judge who just dismissed the lawsuit between Apple and Motorola writes a column explaining what he considers to be reasonable uses of patents, and unreasonable ones. One of his thoughts would be to require a patent holder to produce the patented item within a certain time, to cut out patent trolls."

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  1. "use sof" ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would be easy to blame the editor, but cut 'em some slack. The typo checker was shut down due to a patent dispute filed by Apple for the way it used rounded letters.

  2. Did anyone else read that as parents? by dadioflex · · Score: 4, Funny

    And agree with it?