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What are you trying to say ?

• threeseed 8y ago
  You know a Coke bottle, right ? That has a design patent. Other drink makers are not allowed to make the exact same bottle shape. But you can still make a bottle. And you can still make a bottle that is very similar to the Coke design. But it can't be nearly identical. Translate that to Apple's home screen and that's what we are talking about.
  • yani 8y ago
    It is not nearly identical as did the Supreme court find. These patents are 10 steps back in the direction of inmovation and fair market competition; 10 steps forward in the direction of market monopoly. Let others to copy, educate the consumer, but leave the consumer to make the decision what to buy not some judge in California.
    • stouset 8y ago
      Design is a tradecraft like any other. It involves research, experience, skill, trial and error, time, and resources. Unfortunately, once a design is out there, it takes 5% of this initial effort to duplicate wholesale. What you are saying is tantamount to asserting that this work should have little to no protection, and be freely copyable once a design is made public.
    • rayiner 8y ago
      This isn’t monopolizing some technology. These are purely arbitrary aesthetic choices, and the only reason to infringe the design patent is to make your product look like someone else’s more popular product. That’s not socially valuable activity, it’s free riding.