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Read the claims. Did any of those have internal power supplies (battery?), a touchpad, active cooling, and a single Type C port?
by wildzzz 5y ago
Read the claims. Did any of those have internal power supplies (battery?), a touchpad, active cooling, and a single Type C port?
- retrac 5y agoNone of that is innovative in a way not obvious to any engineer in the field. It's basically a laptop without a screen. Being the first to combine a specific list of features is not necessarily patentable by itself. The combination would have to, paraphrasing various patent laws, surprise an expert in the relevant art with its originality or non-obviousness.
- chillacy 5y agoI'm not a lawyer, only someone who has a few utility patents. My opinion so far is that my patents are not particularly innovative, but I assume there's a numbers game to it for corp attorneys which encourages them to file these. Also, afaik the more specific the patent (must have battery, screen, and connect A and B with wires), the less useful it is. So if the independent claims at the end of the patent come with a lot of caveats, they are less and less easy to find targets for enforcement.
- canadianfella 5y ago
- thfuran 5y agoAre any of those things the least bit non-obvious?