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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Design takes skill, effort and talent. What's wrong with giving protection to the work that goes into design?
Of course, 'obvious' patents should not be granted, whether design or otherwise.
But that is surely a separate issue.
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That's not what I said.
Designs should not be patentable, that's not what patent law was designed to protect. There are other mechanisms to protect design just as there are for writings, art, preformance.