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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoAlso, patents shouldn’t be filable once prior art exists.
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.