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Why We Shouldn't Take Patent Law Seriously

Because it takes well over 8 years of litigation and thousands of dollars for an Appeals Court to determine that attaching a piece of memorabilia to a trading card is 'obvious' and thus, not patentable.

But check this - one of the judges dissented from that conclusion as a matter of law. No...really. He felt it was possible for a jury to think otherwise.

Read the PDF of the decision for yourself here.


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