[Info-vax] HTTP/2 stole my Applet

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:59:13 PM UTC+12, David Froble wrote:
> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 3:21:36 AM UTC+12, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2016-06-18, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you own an idea?
>>> Yes. Copyights protect an implementation of an idea; a patent protects
>>> the idea itself.
>> 
>> If someone came up with the same idea before you, that can invalidate your
>> patent (“prior art”).
>> 
>> But if they came up with the same idea *after* you, they cannot claim
>> independent invention as a defence against infringement. Why is that?
> 
> If they could, then what is the use of copyrights and patents.  Well, Ok, 
> patents.  It's not independent if copywrited material is copied.

Why?