苹果的 "滑动解锁" 和 "圆角矩形" 被评为无用专利 !!!

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苹果的滑动解锁和圆角矩形被评为无用专利



PCWorld 上周在一次评论中指出，“滑动解锁”和“圆角矩形”属於移动设备的自然演变。尤其“圆角矩形”，是如今大多数智能手机都很难避过的设计。 PCWorld 认为苹果的这两项专利“缺少创新”，不应做作一家公司独占的知识产权。不过，其它国家并没有跟随美国的脚步，比如早前德国法院就曾两次裁定苹果的“滑动解锁”专利无效。

First of all, link to original article would be nice.

Secondly, I agree that the patent office is now handing out patents like cupcakes.  Remember Amazon's "One-Click Purchase" patent? Apple's still paying Amazon license fee to use One-Click-Purchase.  

Patent System simply doesn't work for industry that moves at such rapid pace.  It works for medical industry because it take people literally 10s of years to get a good drug developed.
It is up to the courts and the judges, and not the patent office, to either approve or reject patents nowadays when these companies bring disputes to trial, which means that to these companies the best strategy is to apply for as many patents that are remotely related to them as they can as a "just in case".

HTC is actually one of the few companies that didn't seem to have done that like they should have, and they are incredibly weak if Samsung or any other company were to sue them to try to get them out of the game.

[ 本帖最后由 熊爸爸 於 2013-6-8 12:51 AM 编辑 ]