News writers have to butcher reality and cook it for our consumption, sadly.
The poker game at the U.S. Patent Office - wow. From that angle these corporations seem like prowling toms marking turf, and that dampened fencepost just happens to be a semiconductor. I wonder if any one can move and practically materialise without in any way infringing on another, and opening the gates of hell (the corporate lawyers). Sometimes I wonder how much invention is locked up by the same laws meant to promote it.
Anyway. The general - brandless - invention is super neat, and a certain kind of joy to read about.
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