The patent adventures of @qijie who has now had two companies try to patent her work ... first, a crowdsourcing backer got an (invalid) patent on her and
@bunniestudios's LED stickershttps://patentpandas.org/stories/crowdfunding-backer-patented-my-project …
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fwiw, it's probably a net societal good that there's a high standard for willfulness here, because inventions are complex enough that "good guys" could easily get sniped/harassed for honest mistakes by trolls & corps if the bar was too low.
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I know, but forbidding everybody the use of work of e.g. a defenseless academic is much worse than stealing - the entire society pays for it. We need mechanisms able to realistically prevent that, at least disincentivize it. http://endsoftpatents.org/2018/01/jarek-duda-on-software-patents/ …
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