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"Heh, lets throw as many bleeding obvious ideas at the wall and see how many the unbelievably stupid USPTO allow us to get fundamental patents on. That way we can destroy innovation lower down the food chain because every time anyone else with half a brain cell comes up with the obvious ideas we can rock up with a bunch of lawyers and deep pockets and threaten them out of our way - or buy them on the cheap."

US patent law isn't pro-IP protection, it's anti-competitive and anti-innovation.

I'm going to patent flexible biological based gas exchange bags that permit the extraction of oxygen from naturally occurring atmospheric air - that way everyone will need to pay me to breathe.
 
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