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thwarted on May 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: Do you support software patents?

That wouldn't stop someone from patenting something that someone else determined was unpatented and then went after them for infringement.

Silhouette on May 16, 2011 [–]

Unless that constitutes a clear-cut case of prior art in whatever system you have, I don't think the system qualifies as "fast, cheap, reliable".

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