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I'd be happy with and end to low quality patents (i.e., doing "X" but on the internet). Basically, any patent that an average software developer would violate just in their normal course of work (without prior knowledge of the specifics of a given patent, but possibly with knowledge of the problem to be solved). Of course, patent law has this covered already with the "non obvious to those skilled in the art", but this seems to have no meaning anymore.


> Basically, any patent that an average software developer would violate just in their normal course of work

By definition that's every software patent, given the same problem to solve.

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What about ones like the RSA patent? From what I understand, the requirements were laid out ages ago, but it wasn't known if any algorithm could meet those requirements until the RSA algorithm was developed.

Of course, RSA is just math, and patent law already forbids patents on math (but somehow unless it is math related to computers). But that was just the first example off the top of my head of algorithms that took a bit of work to develop (just like many other encryption algorithms, or ML algorithms, etc).




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