5 ms·
Wrap around screens have been speculated about for a long time, how is putting buttons on it non obvious?
by bruceb 12y ago
Wrap around screens have been speculated about for a long time, how is putting buttons on it non obvious?
- user24 12y agoIt may be obvious, but the thinking is, surely, that if they don't patent it someone else will.
- noonespecial 12y agoAnd so the circle is complete. From patenting something because it's not obvious to so things being so obvious we'd better patent them.
- user24 12y agoI'm not defending the practice, just explaining.
- stormbrew 12y agoAnd then if you get sued you point at your own prior art. You don't need to patent something to prove you invented it, you just have to publish your invention. At any rate, historically Apple has been aggressive in its use of patents, so even were that necessary it's unlikely that'd be the main motivator for them.
- nfoz 12y agoIs there a good reason to assume this would only be used defensively?
- npsimons 12y agoIs there a good reason to assume this would only be used defensively? It's Apple, so no.
- MCRed 12y agoGoing to the moon was an obvious thing to want to do in the 1700s. That's not relevant to whether a particular type of rocket engine is patentable or not. Patents cover inventions, not features the inventions are used to create.