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		thfuran on Aug 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of t... There needs to be penalty for filing patents that are utter shit. At the very minimum, trying to actually enforce such patents should constitute abuse of process or malicious prosecution.

mtsr on Aug 16, 2023 [–]

This. Patents (excepting those describing otherwise unreproducible inventions) have no real downsides.

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