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Originally Posted by island911
Back then Amazon, IIRC tried (did?) patent "one touch purchase" . . .as if patents should apply to such obvious outcomes. :-/
Would you say that the clock on your phone also stole their idea? ...you know, a dynamic info field ("tile" if you will) which when touched, takes the user into more information and/or settings.
So many of these tech patents are just cyber-squatting on what is inevitable extrapolation of code.
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Originally Posted by stealthn
Uh, you do have to read the whole thing, I just put a clip in to make my point. MS should never have been able to get their patent as this is exactly what tiles/metro/newname is.
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I get your point, but think that you are not getting mine.
Design patents are one thing . . and very narrowly defined.
Utility patents on trivial appearances are not in keeping with the idea of utility patent protection.