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Originally Posted by iignotus
.....My disagreement is not with whether or not good ideas are intellectual property (all ideas are some form of property, in one way or another I'm sure), but with the genuineness of ideas that are filed for patent and subsequently granted.
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That is certainly true. Did daVinci leave anything for the rest of us to invent?
(People often tend to overrate their uniqueness imho, especially in today's America of sheep. Aside from yer fingerprints and a bit of yer dna... )
A patent search, is a very costly thing in itself, might help ambitious inventors rest more easily, but I am not sure it is binding.