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It's hard to believe there's no IP issues as that Amazon one looks JUST like the Starship model.
by robk 8y ago
It's hard to believe there's no IP issues as that Amazon one looks JUST like the Starship model.
- Fricken 8y agoThere's plenty of prior art for boxy 6-wheeled robots. Pepsi also has a boxy 6-wheeled delivery robot: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/snacks-wheels-pepsico-tests-driving-robot-delivery-60135284 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/snacks-wheels-peps...
- withhighprod 8y agoThere’s for sure no IP issue. That’ll be the first thing Amazon checked during acquisition and it’s a pain in the ass for someone undergone it.
- Twirrim 8y agoEven if they were, like at almost every major company, engineers in Amazon are told _not_ to look at patents at all, ever. The way the patent system in the US is set up, there's a huge financial difference (orders of magnitude, IIRC) between "accidental infringement" and "wilful infringement". If your engineers have never gone looking for patents, it can't be argued that you wilfully infringed on existing patents, should it ever go to court.
- sib 8y ago> The way the patent system in the US is set up, there's a huge financial difference (orders of magnitude, IIRC) between "accidental infringement" and "wilful infringement". It's up to 3x ("treble damages") and the US Supreme Court lowered the standard for granting increased damages not too long ago. https://www.jonesday.com/Supreme-Court-Upends-Law-of-Treble-Damages-in-Patent-Cases-06-15-2016/ https://www.jonesday.com/Supreme-Court-Upends-Law-of-Treble-...