• tibi@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Also the patent office needs to employ actual specialists and reject the bullshit patents, like rounded rectangles.

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      7 hours ago

      Exactly, and oh Christ the Apple vs Samsung on Samsung copying the iPad “design”.
      I don’t know if that was what you meant, but that’s what I immediately thought of.
      It’s like claiming a design patent for the general idea that a laptop folds out the screen, and beneath it you have the keyboard. Except it was actually worse. Because the “design” is little more than a cutting board.