On 8/27/2012 10:47 PM, William Robb wrote:
On 27/08/2012 6:55 PM, Tom C wrote:
What I'm against is a world where we only have Fords, Apple iPads,
Apple smart phones, Samsung TV's, Frigidaire refrigerators,,, you get
my drift, to choose from, and from what I can see that's the kind of
world Apple would like it to be.
Precedent law would say that the first company to patent the 3 box car
design will have the market in sedans and coupes to themselves, and if
the are smart they could patent the pick up truck shape and be the
only car maker allowed to sell vehicles in the USA.
That's how stupid allowing Apple to patent the rectangle with rounded
corner shape is.
We can only hope that it's Nissan or Toyota, and not one of the Big 3
that gets to the patent office first, or we are guaranteed to have to
live with crappy vehicles forever.
Few remember that Polaroid patented the process of osmosis in
photography and got a judgement against Kodak with it. Kodak, didn't
even have to reverse engineer how Polaroid SX70 film worked, they
produced it for them, so they took those intimate details and produced a
product that did exactly the same thing in completely different ways
with one exception to produce an almost identical result. So the fact
that Apple can patent rounded corners doesn't surprise me at all. To
even be allowed to argue patent law you are required to be a combination
of scientist engineer and lawyer, to hear the case apparently not.
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Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthly search.
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