Unfortunately, at least in the US (and from the sound of it, probably Japan), the patent office has the viewpoint of ‘patent everything and let the courts sort them out.’ The courts, on the other hand, defer to the patent office because ‘it’s they’re job so they must know what they’re doing.’
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Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoIirc sony has a patent on an input device having two separate data streams. It seems you write the most general thing you can on patents and patent offices don’t care
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Amazon has a patent on the “one click purchase” button…