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Patents need to be severely reduced or restricted
any interest in going as far as changing that article of the constitution? I feel it is almost unworkable enough I don’t feel as if enough important people care enough the same way as irrelevant people would care relevant because the only populist legislative changes that occur are the ones that coincidentally match what the elite class was already interested in
The constitution doesn’t insist that patents exist, just that congress is the one who regulates them if they do
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any interest in going as far as changing that article of the constitution? I feel it is almost unworkable enough I don’t feel as if enough important people care enough the same way as irrelevant people would care relevant because the only populist legislative changes that occur are the ones that coincidentally match what the elite class was already interested in
It doesn’t teed changing The constitution doesn’t insist that patents exist, just that congress is the one who regulates them if they do
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Apparently synchronized speakers grouped to zones, with the possibility for the zones to overlap so that one speaker could be in multiple zones rather than just one. To quote the judge: > Then, in 2019, Sonos filed continuation applications for the patents in suit. To get around the prior art, Sonos sought to patent zone scenes with a new twist: overlap. With overlap, a zone player could be a member of more than one…
Your description got me wondering if Sonos had actually done anything novel so I decided to go and dig up the actual patent. Best I can tell, it's this one: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7571014B1/en Spoiler, it contains a detailed description of the functionality, complete with UI mockups and flow charts. It does not contain any novel method for keeping audio in sync between rooms, for example. It is insane to…
So back in 2006 Genelec was already doing all of this and had shipped products to the market.
https://www.genelec.com/previous-models/8250a
https://assets.ctfassets.net/4zjnzn055a4v/2Jy6loSGRWecUWacsq...
https://www.genelec.com/-/blog/glm-and-smart-active-monitori...