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All of Open Source needs a sunlit patent pool, a searchable database of documented inventions AND all of the follow on ideas around them. This could provide a way to force patent examiners to do their jobs and allow the Open Source Community to crowd source invention bombing the proprietary world.

How does one lookup these patents? They need more exposure so they can be refuted.

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I work in a different industry, power tools. Somehow the USPTO allowed Milwaukee to patent a circ saw that spins at a certain rpm...

The things that get through the patent office are braindead. Patents are just weaponized legal minefields now. They've totally lost their original intent.

I recall a container of multimeters seized at the border because they were the wrong color of yellow...

I may have bought an American meter once, but it was a fluke. Never again.

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