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It combined a known, existing event (scrolling), with a known, existing action (refreshing). It would be akin to be patenting the ability to right click, hold
by jasonlotito 15y ago
It combined a known, existing event (scrolling), with a known, existing action (refreshing). It would be akin to be patenting the ability to right click, hold that right click, and then have a different menu appear.
So, what you do is take all know actions, and all known events, and put them on a big table so you can cross reference them. See which ones you like, and there you go!
In fact, that's so ingenious, (a mechanism to develop knew UI concepts), I could probably patent it under our own system!
- politician 15y agoPlease do this.
- AkThhhpppt 15y agoHave you read Charles Stross' Accelerando? The main character holds the patent for "using genetic algorithms to patent everything they can permutate from an initial description of a problem domain". I really, really hope it counts as Clarkeian prior art. The book is here: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html