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You jest but a Boeing patent on a specific satellite manuever had the effect of decommissioning a satellite.

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6116545





Perhaps patents will be the last thing that saves human-driven cars.

You can get an injunction against self-driving cars that can do the newly patented three-point-turn (its not prior art because now it uses a COMPUTER system!), but you can't stop a driver from doing it!


Patents definitely foster progress by the looks of it.




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