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Seriously, why patent something like this? Why not just give an improved pizza box design to everybody?
by fredley 9y ago
Seriously, why patent something like this? Why not just give an improved pizza box design to everybody?
- steverb 9y agoBecause then you can use it as a bragging point.
- tyingq 9y agoCould be solely defensive. Maybe the food container biz is highly litigious.
- rahilb 9y agoJudging by a recent order with Deliveroo (when I was told I couldn't order chips/fries because they haven't figured out how to reliably deliver them), it's a licensing play.
- devopsproject 9y agoyou are talking about a company that tried to argue a "tap" is a "zero length swipe"
- jvgiuiigvuuc 9y agoThe lawyers did.
- devopsproject 9y agolawyers are apple employees, no?
- kevindqc 9y agoWould that patent really hold? It's just a round box with 8 holes! So now (well since 2012), if someone makes a box with holes, it's breaking patent law? I thought only software patents were ridiculous
- gertef 9y agoI invented a box with 9 holes
- gertef 9y agoIt's a needlessly complex expensive design that only apply would want: https://www.google.com/patents/US20120024859 https://www.google.com/patents/US20120024859