Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 06:58 AM EST |
The lawn is a limited location. As is "where".
A patent is about "what", and reaches to any location where patent law
reaches.
So it is more like: you cannot walk. you can bike, but not walk.
(On a side note:
some walks can be subsidised, by the Ministry of Funny Walks)
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Authored by: ukjaybrat on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 08:27 AM EST |
You can't amputate my legs but you could possibly get a
restraining order if my walking on your lawn threatens you in
anyway. Then it's not just your lawn but 100 feet of your
property; and if i'm caught, it's jail time/fine for me.
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IANAL[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: MadTom1999 on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 11:54 AM EST |
It always seems more like getting an injunction to stop you walking on their
lawn and then expecting it to cover the grass that's growing on yours too![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 12:24 PM EST |
Because its just like the current situation... it only escalates.
You keep walking on my lawn, I sic the dog on you.
You shoot the dog... etc... until we've got WWIII.
Because the lawn is what it is and I can't physically prevent you walking, we
both resort to other and artificial means to "resolve" our dispute.
The round corners (and the colors black and silver) are what they are, obvious
and not why I buy something. Apple can't change that, patent or no, so they
resort to injunctions and litigation to prove to the world how creative and
original they are.
Whan that fails, patent "flat" and try again.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Actually no - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 22 2013 @ 11:15 AM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 03:22 PM EST |
Untill you end up like Monsanto, and the metaphor becomes reality.
It's probably just a matter of time untill they genetically modify an applety to
produce multi-coloured apples - and then utility and design patents will come
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Authored by: Charles888 on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 10:05 PM EST |
I think the analogy of walking on a
lawn to demanding an injunction is
that: Should we prevent you from
walking on the lawn when the actual
ownership of the lawn is in
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