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    There was a patent-law professor at my university who used to advocate for the law school to the engineering students. He always told the same sexy story:...

    There was a patent-law professor at my university who used to advocate for the law school to the engineering students. He always told the same sexy story:

    https://patents.google.com/patent/US5905908A/en

    Basically the idea was: the internet but not on personal computers. The guy made a fortune suing phone companies in the early 2000's. He followed up by stating that times were different now and such an open-ended patent couldn't possibly be approved today (~10 years ago).

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