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Story: EFF sets its sights on 'frivolous' IT patents
Posted by: Antony King (Tuesday 13 July 2004, 8:14 AM)
Patents are supposed to cover novel technical inventions that would be non-obvious to someone knowledgable in that area of technology. Most patents granted today are only granted because the patent office doesn't have the skill or the time to examine them in any meaningful sense.
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