Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:35:30 PDT Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121011/09312820678/if-patents-had-been-around-time-newton.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121011/09312820678/if-patents-had-been-around-time-newton.shtml mocking the ridiculousness of the patent system -- pointing to a comic from SMBC. Well, he's back with yet another, even more direct, mocking of the patent system. Behold, patents in the time of Sir Isaac Newton. Of course, I think he missed out on another joke (and was disappointed it wasn't in the after comment) concerning how the Newton-Leibniz controversy would have played out in a first to file system vs. a first to invent patent system. Then again, perhaps only true patent system geeks would get that one.

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