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And emerging QUIC acceleration technology is likely to be stifled by intellectual property laws.

Intel has already filed (in 2019) for a European patent that seems to claim inventorship of the generic concept of hardware offloading (as it applies to QUIC)

https://data.epo.org/publication-server/pdf-document?pn=3541...

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Is this instance of a patent good or bad?

Bad, since it is an obvious idea that any engineer in the field could come up with.

Bad, in my view. (Although I am not a lawyer, and would definitely appreciate input from one here!)

Hardware offload of a network protocol is an extremely generic concept and this patent seems to describe that concept (without any kind of novel mechanism or implementation details).

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