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By “imagines” they mean “tries to patent” Even our fucked up patent system is unlikely to grant this, so why are they even trying? Is this just busy work for t

• sanjayio 5y ago
  If you had an unlimited war chest you would do the same before your competitor does and you end up in a lengthy legal battle.
• unfocussed_mike 5y ago
  Patents like this definitely get granted, all the time, and at scale. Have a look at one of the international patent classes they are using -- google other patents in that class. They are seemingly a way to register a product's technical design for protection, rather than an outrageous fictitious claim of innovation over something that has been around 40 years. They contain unusually detailed (rather than abstracted) sketches, they contain some very specific measurements in specific claims. I think some of the more egregious uses of patents in the past have blinded us to the sheer scale of the use of the international patent system to protect designs from copycats and to allow companies to develop unique design languages. I think we may often misunderstand why patent claims are structured as they are with seemingly obvious introductory claims. It's because a patent has to be self-contained, as far as I understand it at least?