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This article brings up a big issue: even if Magic Leap fails to deliver, they just might own all of the relevant patents. This could make AR needlessly expensi
by jhallenworld 10y ago
This article brings up a big issue: even if Magic Leap fails to deliver, they just might own all of the relevant patents. This could make AR needlessly expensive for decades.
- sharemywin 10y agoexcept they seem like they're all business method or software patents which will much hard to enforce: At the time the Mayo case was decided, there was some uncertainty over whether it applied only to natural principles (laws of nature) or more generally to patent eligibility of all abstract ideas and general principles, including those involved in software patents. The Alice decision confirmed that the test was general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate
- sharemywin 10y agoFederal Circuit has been invalidating software patents at an alarming rate ever since, all relying on the Alice decision. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/patent-eligibility-criteria-light-alice-concept-idea-fatih-ozluturk https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/patent-eligibility-criteria-l...