“The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 46 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“In this particular report we cover Apple’s patent relating to a possible future Push-to-Talk iPhone and/or iDevice feature,” Purcher reports. “We also cover a more advanced version of Apple’s famed Slide-to-Unlock and two patents relating to avatar creation and editing for social networking, video conferencing and gaming.”
Purcher reports, “We wrap up this week’s granted patent report with our traditional listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple today.”
Much more, including Apple patent application illustrations, in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Patents? Remind me, what are those for?
Stealing
They are to ensure that the method, process and materials you use in your patent application can be available to your competitors lawyers for the purpose of enabling them to reverse your method and use alternative materials to your patent to guarantee court sanctioned theft of your intellectual property.
Having said that, what other option do you have? Revert to the caveman method? Guess what, we’ve been there and done that too.
We have copied methods for:- lighting fires, wheel, irrigation, wells, ploughing, sailing, writing, language… in fact anything that has or hasn’t got man’s inventive process rubber stamped on it we have copied.
Does get over it sound callous? Yes and No!!!
Samsung’s ‘innovations’ prior to the their ‘facts’.