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		usea on July 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Even experts get it wrong This isn't actually true. The summary of a patent is usually very broad, but if you read the full text it is very specific as to the method being patented. Media outlets portray patents as covering an entire concept, but really they only cover a narrow implementation of a concept.

emmett on July 24, 2012 [–]

Actually, this is often quite true for software patents. For a famous example, the Amazon one-click patent.

It shouldn't be true, but it is, because patent examiners have done a very poor job screening software patents historically.

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