P3D Re: Idddeas and Patents

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Gabriel Jacob wrote:
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> 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!

As to the above, see:
http://www.lightlink.com/bbm/wselden.html
This is a classic case involving the automobile. As Henry Ford proved, 
even items granted a patent should not go unchallenged.

Bill Stickley
> Gabriel


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