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Patents, Novelty, and Trolls: Crash Course Intellectual Property #4

This week, Stan teaches you about patents. It turns out, they're patently complicated! So, patents have some similarity to copyright, in that they grant a limited monopoly to people who invent things. The key difference in patents and copyright is that patents are for THINGS. Copyright is for an idea.

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baudtack

I'm glad you talked about patent trolls, but I'm frustrated at the lack of discussion of how screwed up the patent system is, particularly in terms of software patents where there are huge numbers of patents issued for the exact same thing. I get that this is an intro to the topic but :-\