Fuzzy Patents
Many times after reading through patents, it would seem the intellectual property actually rest in the ability of patent submitters to make generally known concepts within an industry seem innovative. This behavior is rather frustrating at best, so I was pleasantly surprised last week as I read articles from Forbes about two initiatives that may reduce some of the noise in the patent pipeline:
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No opinion on which model will work best, although both are an intriguing start.