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ikeboy on Dec 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Loading Screen Game Patent Finally Expires

If apple is discouraged from inventing an iPhone because they won't be able to defend the patent against minor changes, that's a loss to society.

If you concede that patents in general are good, then you should also agree that sometimes, it's better for a patent to be general.

nitrogen on Dec 6, 2015 [–]

I'm more in the "everything is a remix" camp, at least as far as software and design patents are concerned. If Apple didn't create the iPhone, someone else would have made something similar.

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