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These are design patents, not utility patents. It's not a patent on all wrapped windshields, it's a patent on windshields that look like nikola's. The fact tha
by DannyBee 9y ago
These are design patents, not utility patents.
It's not a patent on all wrapped windshields, it's a patent on windshields that look like nikola's. The fact that someone somewhere made wrapped windshields once is irrelevant here (but would not be in utility patents)
To use a slightly crappy analogy, it's like patenting your ui, not your algorithm.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> To use a slightly crappy analogy, it's like patenting your ui, not your algorithm. To use a less crappy analogy, it's like the patents on smartphone case shape and layout that were at issue in Apple-Samsung.
- DannyBee 9y agoYeah, i tried to avoid that one because people did the same thing there ("rounded corner phones existed before!"), but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯