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Originally Posted by Dave Berk
I don't understand patents nowadays. How can something so simple and obvious and so generic be patentable?
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This is why the patent system in the US is horribly broken. Stupid patents like this exist all over the place, just waiting for some patent troll to come in and try to cash out on it.
The checks and balances that are supposed to be in place to stop this nonsense don't work. The patent office is so swamped, that as long as you have the money to push it through their system you can get just about anything patented.