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		wolco on Nov 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won The rich can afford patents and can enforce them. Unless that changes it doesn't matter who has the idea first.

rubicon33 on Nov 5, 2019 [–]

... You have to have an idea to patent. Just being rich, doesn't mean you can suddenly have rights to all the possible patents.

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