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This comes up all the time. Here's a quick way to put that argument to rest, an interactive feature by the New York Times showing the patents Steve Jobs is pers
by micahgoulart 15y ago
This comes up all the time. Here's a quick way to put that argument to rest, an interactive feature by the New York Times showing the patents Steve Jobs is personally listed on: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/ste...
- munin 15y ago"CLAIM The ornamental design for packaging, as shown and described." really?
- Cushman 15y agoIt's called a design patent. It explicitly covers only the ornamental, non-functional design of the object, and is subject to somewhat different terms than a utility patent. In terms of IP law, it's actually quite reasonable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
- munin 15y agoappreciated, however I don't think that people mean "design" as in aesthetic design when they say "invented" for example, the spinning beach ball is patented... I think we have passed the point where "patented" has anything to do with what people think of as "invention"
- Pheter 15y agoHow does this put the argument to rest?
- gnaffle 15y agoWhile he did invent lots of stuff, I think it's pretty undisputed by the people close to him such as Jony Ive and Andy Hertzfeld, that Steve was famous for claiming other peoples ideas as his own. [Edit: Jony Ive describes this in chapter 26 of the biography. See folklore.org for more examples.]
- Drbble 15y agoThe CEO is on a lot of corporate patent applications for contributing" to the invention. I have seen two CEOs on my applications for patents.