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Funions or other fake onion ring things! Adds an extra flavor to the mix. Maybe shrimp crackers too if you have an Asian grocery nearby to get them from and don't have to worry about allergies or anything.

AI generated image in the article preview so I'm not reading. Look at the keyboard, no arrow keys lmao.

Amazing how the NSA finds every excise to suck possible.

The USPTO already has lower fees for "micro entities" as it calls regular people and small businesses. Still too expensive for regular people and too cheap for mega corps but they do have different fee tiers.

This is a really cool idea. Other posters here have explained why it isn't a good idea, but I still think it is neat. Maybe there is a niche edge case use for such a thing? If nothing else it is very scifi

Op, please patent it so no other company can use it for the next 20 years

Weird flavored chips from the Asian grocery store.

They could and imho (I'm not an expert on this) they probably should. This would fall under unfucking copyright though, or perhaps under a new thing along side copyright and patent law (though that sounds like more work than updating copyright law). Amending it into patent law would be the toughest option. The simple answer as to why I think that is that the vibes are off.

As a rough analogy it would be like combating public flashers by changing the rules for the department of transportation rather than the criminal justice system (ignoring how fucked the criminal justice system is).

You get it

I don't know if I would say more broken, at least patents have limits on how long they can exist for, putting an upper bound on how much damage they can cause. The again, limiting the production of vaccines during a pandemic is a lot more urgent than letting people do micky mouse cartoons so the standard for what broken is has to be a lot more stringent. It is more important for patent law to not be broken than it is for copyright law so the same amount of brokenness feels worse with patents.

US patent professional here

Ya, saying it isn't possible to do under patent law is no understatement. Even making the patent applications possible to allow would require changes to 35 U. S. C. 112 (A, and probably also B), 35 U. S. C. 101. This all assumes that all authors would have the time and money and energy to file a patent, which even with a good attorney is analogous to is many many hours of work and filing pro se would be like writing a whole new book. After the patent is allowed the costs of continuation applications to account for changes in the process as the author learns and grows would be a hellish burden. After this comes the 20 year lifespan of a patent (assuming all maintenance fees are paid, which is quite the assumption, those are not cheap) at which point the patent protections are dead and the author needs to invent a new process to be protected. Don't even get me started on enforcing a patent.

Patent law is fundamentally flawed to be sure but even if every author gets infinite money and time to file patents with then the changes needed to patent law to let them do so would leave patent law utterly broken for other purposes.

Using patent law for this is a good idea to bring up but for the above reasons I don't think it is viable at all. It would be better and more realistic to have congress change copyright law than to change patent law I think. Sadly, I don't think that is particularly likely either. :(

This is high art and belongs in a museum. I'm not joking.