Passage A is from a 2007 article on the United States patent system; passage B is from a corporate statement.
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This describes inventing something that’s unpatentable. But when the author says that ideally, companies should be able to “invent around” each other, he doesn’t suggest that companies should create outright unpatentable inventions. He just means that companies should be able to avoid infringing on each other’s patents.
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The phrase “invent around” refers to finding ways of working around patents to avoid infringing on them at all.
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The phrase “invent around” refers to avoiding previously patented ideas altogether. It describes one company inventing something similar to another company without stepping on the toes of that second company’s patented ideas.
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Too strong and too specific. The author doesn’t suggest that to “invent around” something, you need to use entirely different principles from existing products. “Invent around” just means inventing something that comes close to a competitor’s invention without infringing on any patents.
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The author brings up “inventing around” others’ patents in response to a problem: one company can hold patents that are too broad, meaning if another company tries to make something with a similar intent, it won’t be able to avoid infringing on the too-broad patents. He’d prefer an alternative situation, where companies can “invent around” each others’ patents. By “invent around,” he must mean that if a company tries to make something that comes close to an already-patented invention, the company can avoid infringing on any existing patents.