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pbhjpbhj
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MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired
>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.
cornholio
on Feb 15, 2018
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...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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Which is why every patent act has the requirements of novelty and non-obviousness.