USPTO has been "broken" since 19th C. Edison had loads of "invalid" patents. I think I read the government had to invalidate his moving pictures patent. He did invent a better way to make a carbon filament for electric lights, but didn't invent electric lights.
RCA should not have had patents on Superhet or FM radio, for various reasons.
There should only be copyright on software, and only on the code implementation.
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