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Originally posted by twistyneck
Then it would seem that Acacia and these guys have more or less the exact same patent. wtf?
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There are probably ten more patents out there covering the same thing.
They all cover something so obvious that it should not have been patentable in the first place.
Any idiot in 1975 knew that people would be watching video on computers in the future, why were these idiots allowed to patent it?
They are not claiming a specific technology, which might be acceptable, they are claiming the whole process of video over a computer network.
Why are people allowed to patent broad non-specific things like this in the first place?