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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Patents and copyright are creations of statute for the purpose of promoting innovation. No natural intellectual property rights exist without statutes, and granting intellectual property rights is pointless if it doesn't promote innovation. There's nothing to be gained for society for granting a 200 year, 2,000 year or infinite patent, so the idea is ridiculous on its face.
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No natural rights of any kind exist without laws granting and protecting those rights.
Here's an example of a ridiculous patent that should never have been granted to begin with:
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Simultaneous recording and playback apparatus
US 5930444 A
Abstract
A keyboard equipped audiovisial recording and playback device is provided having an input and an output adapted for connection between a users signal source and display device, respectively, and a memory unit with a storage medium enabling random access to programming information stored therein. A keyboard responsive control circuit enables manipulation and transfer of programming information between the input, output and memory. Because of the relative high speed of the control circuitry and memory access, substantially simultaneous recording and playback of television type signals is achieved, thus enabling user controlled programming delay.
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This is the sad sorry state of today's patents. Now
Apple is being sued over this.