In most cases, (aside from pharmaceuticals), the time that it takes to actually get a patent is so much longer then the time it takes to bring a product to market and technology advances so quickly that only overly broad patents are of any real value because they skim off the profits of others long after the the original implementation.

As for sharing the ideas, reverse engineering has advanced to such a point that once a product has been brought to market, competitors can figure it out in short order anyway. The only way to remain competitive is to continue coming up with new ideas that advance the state of the art. 

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These ads have been annoying me for a while, so I thought I'd explain why. (ps why no SVG upload, G+?)

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Americans need to wake up and stop growing and spreading these frankfoods….

It's one thing when when Apple designs a proprietary connector for its portable devices that costs $10-30. Doing that for a car without a could technological reason is just asinine. Chelsea Sexton has a great opinion piece in Wired about the dumb moves automakers are making when it comes to defining charging standards for electrified vehicles. 

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Patrick Stewart. 5:08. Amazing

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The iPhone 5‘s camera might have a flaw. If you point the camera toward the sun or bright lights, a purple halo appears around those light sources, and in some cases, purple lens flares also appear within the frame.

We took three similar shots in the same conditions to create the picture below, using the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5 and the high-end Nikon D300 digital SLR as a control. As you can see, the iPhone 5 is the only one producing this somewhat undesirable special effect in this instance. In addition to that huge purple blowout around the sun, you can also see a lens flare that looks like a purple rainbow lower in the frame.

If you have an iPhone 5, have you experienced this problem?

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