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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 01:01 PM EDT |
Good point! So, while clever and functional in the touch-screen smart-phone, it
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 05:09 PM EDT |
The mechanical latches are physical devices, which can be designed
around because your new device's drawings will show it to be different
from the patented device.
> The Apple's patent is just software implementation of this.
Which might have been allowable if you believe in software patents, but
with such vague non-specific, non-mechanical drawings, and written in
sufficiently broad terms that doing it on <name your new class of device>
still falls within its scope. Patents like this issue only because of a
lack of intellectual rigor at USPTO. Nuking USPTO might seem an
attractive proposition, but what will then happen to all the new
useful mousetraps people are still inventing?
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