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Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 03:48 PM EDT |
Innovation is about doing something new and unanticipated. Getting there first
may mean bragging rights, and there might be innovation involved in the process,
but getting to an anticipated position is not innovation.
A thin device is not innovation, it is an assembly of the parts that
manufacturers are developing to get closer to the perpetual goal of thinner,
lighter, etc. Rounded corners are certainly not an innovation of any sort, not
even worthy of a design patent. Portable devices from any competent designer
will have rounded corners; sharp corners would set a company up for the
ambulance chasers. (Of course we can't get sharp cornered for kids for a gift;
they'd put an eye out.) Actually, the person that granted the rounded corner
patent at the USPTO really oughta be held up for ridicule.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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