@andy - Users working out of their garage? No. Big companies with deep pockets? Most definitely. Stupid, obvious patents are sold and traded around like candy and wind up in possession of companies whose sole purpose is to milk them for revenue. Hence one of the biggest problems with our patent system.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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@andy - Users working out of their garage? No. Big companies with deep pockets? Most definitely. Stupid, obvious patents are sold and traded around like candy and wind up in possession of companies whose sole purpose is to milk them for revenue. Hence one of the biggest problems with our patent system.