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<li style="list-style-type: "➢ ";"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org> on behalf of René Schmitz <synth@schmitzbits.de><br>
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<li style="list-style-type: "➢ ";">I've been pondering about this: How can this be patentable, if this is so similar in its working principle, and all the parts had been used elsewhere.<br>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can patent almost anything - the people at the patent office have no chance of working
out if your idea is actually original so usually don't bother unless you're patenting the mobile phone or perpetual motion.</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I think a lot of this nonsense began in the mid-80s when large companies started cross-licencing
patents to each other so they didn't ever sue each other, but it helped keep smaller companies out of their territory. If you've got ten thousand patents, one of them might stick.<br>
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