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To: fireman15

You’re right, but the fact is, design patents have historically been very weak and difficult to defend.


6 posted on 05/18/2015 8:39:32 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: bigbob
You’re right, but the fact is, design patents have historically been very weak and difficult to defend.

In this instance, Apple was wrong. . . and what they called ornamental was actually functional. . . and it may redound to their benefit, just not in perpetuity, just for the life of the Utility patent.

8 posted on 05/18/2015 8:42:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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