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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
What's more difficult now, I would wager, are the major breakthrough type inventions. But little things that make life easier or more interesting? Yeah, I think they're conceived more and more frequently... and technology is certainly an enabler and stimulator.
Yes (except pharmaceuticals), you don't get silos of independent development anymore with a breakthrough after years of work. Everyone is driven to file patents as incremental inventions come along, which means that the technology gets revealed when published, which means that the next invention is only an incremental advance over what was published before, and so on.

Nice blog post on patent myths, btw.
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