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That's a fascinating story, I appreciate your sharing this background. Are there any associated patents that haven't expired?
by webmaven 5y ago
That's a fascinating story, I appreciate your sharing this background.
Are there any associated patents that haven't expired?
- DonHopkins 5y agoThere are a lot of patents that refer to pie menus. Searching "pie menu" on google patent search gets 33 pages of results: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pie+menu%22&tbm=pts&sxsrf=AOaemvKkBmrqmO5EWkk6DvUA-6dOqNZbfA:1638704788915&ei=lKasYeGzN5K-kwWv4qfgBw&start=320&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwjhzdaGy8z0AhUS36QKHS_xCXw45gEQ8tMDegQIBxBy&biw=1175&bih=1000&dpr=2 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pie+menu%22&tbm=pts&sxsrf... A lot of them are expired, and a lot of them cover something really specific or not directly related, some of them are really terrible ideas you wouldn't want to copy anyway, and many of them make trivial but obvious changes in the hopes of abusing a patent system, which is an extremely common practice, and a whole lot of them are completely oblivious to prior art, and shouldn't have been issued in the first place, but they were.