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Stratasys is losing ground because their massively overpriced ecosystem is getting outclassed by literally everything else in the market. So why improve if you can just sue your competition out of the US market?

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly, patents that is simply describing obvious stuff like "Method for sharing and searching playlists" (it actually exists) should be rejected or get just 3 years max

Stuff like this took more time/money in filing the patent application than the actual development

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Obligatory I am not a patent lawyer, but quick glance at the description, how the heck did that pass the novelty requirement?

A method for making a playlist available to the public, in which the playlist comprises user-defined descriptor information. The user-defined descriptor information is entered as free form text or prose.