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The book written establishes a copyright, not a patent. Bringing this back to technology with an example: Palm synthesized the smart phone and color LCD screen
by JoelSutherland 15y ago
The book written establishes a copyright, not a patent.
Bringing this back to technology with an example: Palm synthesized the smart phone and color LCD screen in ~2004. I'm pretty glad all smartphones have color screens today.
- 0x44 15y agoI did say I was making an analogy, not establishing a direct link between patents and copyright. Patents protect a specific method of implementing an idea, so Palm synthesizing a smart phone with a color LCD (controlled by a stylus) does not prevent Apple from protecting the synthesis of smart phone with a color LCD (controlled by fingertips). If there was no innovation in bringing multi-touch to smart phones, why wasn't everyone doing it in 2007 when the iPhone was first released?
- pyre 15y ago> If there was no innovation in bringing multi-touch to > smart phones, why wasn't everyone doing it in 2007 when > the iPhone was first released? For starters, because Apple bought the company that invented multi-touch, therefore controlled the rights to the technology.
- pyre 15y agoFurther, Apple purchased them in April 2005, a little less than two years before they announced the iPhone (Jan 2007).