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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 06:03 PM EDT |
They "copy" about as much as Apple copied their competitors when they
decided that their first computer should probably include a monitor and a
keyboard, and when the user pushed keys on the keyboard it should control the
operation of the computer, and sometimes make characters appear on the screen to
form words and enter commands and data.
Some things are just too basic, and too heavily based on prior art, to deserve
patent protection. Patenting the very concept of making a gesture on a touch
screen would make it impossible to make a useful touch-based interface. Besides,
the patented concepts were neither new nor invented by Apple. These patents are
the perfect examples of stupid, dishonest patents on concepts that are both old
and obvious, not to mention that they are huddled up right on the border of what
is considered patentable subject matter even by the very lax standards of the
USPTO.
I realize you do not agree with this, but it is the firm and well founded
opinion of a very large and growing amount of people who have given this a good
amount of thought. You cannot hope to stop an avalanche by waving a finger in
front of it and say that you disagree with it happening. So, I am sorry, but you
are about to be overrun.
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