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I already had a side mirror that eliminates blind spot a few years ago on my Peugeot 207 (I live in Europe) although it didn't have such an angle of vision.

Even though it's a neat invention, I still have to vomit every time I read the word "patent". And to say crooks are working hard to bring these to Europe

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There have been patents in Europe for quite some time now.

Yeah, I was talking about idea patents.

Being able to patent an actual implementation is somewhat ok, but being able to patent ideas is plain stupid, and they are in the prrocess of importing it to the EU

There are no non-"idea" patents. By their very nature, patents are there to provide a monopoly on novel ideas. If I come up with the design for a new gearing system and patent it, then you have an idea for a substantially similar system and build it, you're violating my patent. It's all about ideas.

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