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Uhh, because fictional representations of devices without sufficient information on how to actually construct them isn't prior art? I guarantee you, if you inv
by twoodfin 14y ago
Uhh, because fictional representations of devices without sufficient information on how to actually construct them isn't prior art?
I guarantee you, if you invent a matter/energy transporter you will be able to patent it despite Star Trek having put it on screen almost 50 years ago.
- kamjam 14y agoDid you see the video I linked to? This was actually real and that video is dated 1 year before the iPhone was even announced, let alone released. Besides, as far as I've read (and I haven't read the details of the patents themselves) they are patenting the concept of the pinch-to-zoom, not the actual implementation, otherwise Samsung would just have a slightly different technical implementation of it right...
- twoodfin 14y agoYou can't get utility patents for "concepts". They patented a specific way to do pinch-to-zoom on mobile devices with capacitive touch screens (and interacting with an event loop). Which is a similar, but not identical, problem to doing multitouch pinch-to-zoom on a projector-based system as in the demo.
- kamjam 14y agoWhich is as silly as those patents which essentially took existing ideas and added "on the web" to the end of them. Not saying you're wrong, just what everyone else has been screaming - the patent system is broken!
- heartbreak 14y agoThe company that designed the interface in Minority Report is OOOii. They actually did implement the user interfaces portrayed in the movie: http://www.ooo-ii.com/ http://www.ooo-ii.com/