Patent reform

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Patent reform

eSports Chaebol: Feb 22, 2005; Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Perhaps patents on software and cutting-edge gadgetry would be less obviously egregious so often if the terms were simply shorter. There's plenty of genuine debate over what should be patentable, but aside from that, everyone who would say that 14-20 years of protection for anything on a smartphone is a good idea and a reasonable amount of time to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts is willfully lying. It really should be seen as a practical rather than an ideological question: it's not like people bought a new version of the Victrola gramophone or McCormick reaper every other year.

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