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2025-11-28 Science & Technology
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Patents have not been good for software at all, and it's about to get worse... Leave a comment: https://www.regulations.gov/document/PTO-P-2025-0025-0001 https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/developers-still-need-the-right-to-challenge-junk-patents/ https://x.com/amasad/status/1992734337889100117 Want to sponsor a video? Learn more here: https://soydev.link/sponsor-me Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at https://t3.gg S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Top Comments (10)

@RoyaltyInTraining. 2025-11-28

Isn't it odd that the system meant to protect small inventors from huge corporations is almost exclusively used by huge corporations?

817 29 replies
@mikemagic68 2025-11-28

really like this sponsor

724 9 replies
@yourlocalsip 2025-11-28

Nikon buying RED and then telling them "shut the fuck up about your patent" is such a bro move it's crazy

412 8 replies
@CavieJohnsonHere 2025-11-28

Valve is under going a lawsuit about this too. It looks like they'll win

329 4 replies
@haydensmith3341 2025-11-28

I had always thought that you could only patent your specific method for doing a thing, if someone comes up with another way of doing the same thing they should be fine. The idea that someone could patent a concept of a thing is crazy.

184 16 replies
@znewt99 2025-11-28

The worst change to patent system was getting rid of first to invent and replacing it with first to file in the early 2010s. That empowered and encouraged patent trolls

159 2 replies
@TheOnlyTima 2025-11-28

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128 2 replies
@cerellitv2978 2025-11-28

The reason magnetic charging cables for most devices isn't the standard is because of Apple. The reason you don't have infinite scroll on your mouse is because of Logitech. That is not to mention that millions of people die each year because of medical patents which is also a major part why medical costs are so absurdly high.

115 10 replies
@z_0968 2025-11-28

Well you heard the judge, if some people cave in to your extortion scheme that makes it legal!

106 2 replies
@the-answer-is-42 2025-11-28

I have an idea. Can someone try to patent the act of using that Texas court to file patents? We just need to figure out how to word it so the people in that court don't understand what it's about and we're golden.

80 3 replies

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