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4am@lemm.ee 6 days agoAlso, patents shouldn’t be filable once prior art exists.
Aka Nintendo patenting game mechanics 30 years after the fact to try and sue Palworld.
Also game mechanics and UI features being tied to existing functionality (Amazon’s “one click”, Apple’s “swipe to unlock”) should not be considered novel.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
That’s the case today, it’s just that the patent office accepts far more patents than it should. Those patents absolutely don’t hold up in court, but it really shouldn’t get to that point either.
4am@lemm.ee 5 days ago
On March 16th, 2013, America passed the American Inventors Act, which transitioned the United States to a First-to-File system.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Ugh, gross. It did expand the definition of prior art though, but I think it’s worse on net.