P3D Idddeas and Patents

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Mike K. writes
>Yes, that's the (excuse me) idea.  One can't broaden one's idea
>that's being covered to include any previous art, but if the
>idea is *entirely* new, then they can.

Aren't we lucky (or maybe unlucky) they didn't patent GUI, or then
we might all be operating Apple computers or maybe even Xerox stuff!
We'd better watch out, when 3-D graphical user interfaces come
out (and they will be), Bill Gates might appropriate stereo windows!

In another post
>To get around it you need to come up with another way to do things
>that doesn't fall within the other's patent claims *at all*.  In
>other words, a completely different idea on how to accomplish the
>same objective.

I guess we're lucky (again) that they didn't patent the steering
wheel, because then we would have to learn to use a multitude of
different steering devices!

Gabriel 


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