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> 2. Sorry, all I can do is laugh. Do you actually follow the US legal system?

Do you follow it deeper than the propaganda about frivolous lawsuits?

> 3. Again, whether a patent is bad or not has nothing to do with whether it's infringed in any particular case.

He's not talking about particular cases, he's talking about aggregate statistics. A system with a lot of weak patents, where people might independently come up with the same design because it's obvious, is going to have a lot more infringement than a system with only strong patents, where infringement is likely to come from only purposefully copying a design.



> propaganda about frivolous lawsuits?

Oh please. This isn't about ambulance chasers, I'm not some right-wing nut who thinks corporations need to be protected from the unwashed masses. This is about things like patent and copyright trolls.

> He's not talking about particular cases, he's talking about aggregate statistics.

Justice is not decided based on aggregate statistics.


> Justice is not decided based on aggregate statistics.

This is a total non-sequitor. He was talking about the mechanics of lawsuits, not "justice."




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