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>and a patent on an obvious and straightforward solution is a major hindrance to everybody else.//

Which is why every patent act has the requirements of novelty and non-obviousness.




...that's almost always irrelevant in practice, and courts have upheld an a very low inovation bar. The root problem is that development effort has little relation to the licensing price, the licensing fee is often a monopoly rent.




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