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While I'm confident your reply is tongue-in-cheek, it's a sad indictment of the patent system that a half-billion-dollar "innovation" can be infringed by a few
by akersten 6y ago
While I'm confident your reply is tongue-in-cheek, it's a sad indictment of the patent system that a half-billion-dollar "innovation" can be infringed by a few nebulous sentences on a technical forum.
- kube-system 6y agoThankfully, that is not the case. In fact, all patent applications (in the US at least) are published into the public domain. Feel free to download all of Apple's patent documents from uspto.gov, print them on T-shirts, and sell them on the street corner. * You just can't build the devices described within the patent and sell them. *(don't actually do this because I'm not a lawyer and their patent documents may contain mentions of their trademarks which have their own rules)
- akersten 6y agoJust for fun, I didn't literally mean that the post describing the operations would infringe the patent. It only becomes infringing when that description is expressed in a way a computer understands! Hopefully, my indignation at the absurdity of software patents is now clear.