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New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

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Re: New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

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Post by scientific_ass »

netsharc wrote: post #29
scientific_ass wrote: post #24

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Hello ChrisMarshallNY, I know the author, thanks for sharing your views. I will share your feedback ahead. I do not think their intention is to advertise Apple because most of their articles are on analysis based on patent data.

I think he meant the article is an ad for GreyB: > You can learn much about a company’s market value and upcoming business plans by analyzing patterns in its IP strategy. Being a pioneer in the IP R&D space, GreyB has the expertise and resources to help you cut through the noise and get actionable insights on a company or innovator.

Oh, okay. Yes it makes sense.

Will share this ahead as well. Thank you.

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Post by boesboes »

progbits wrote: post #30
jug wrote: post #25

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May sound ridiculous but still needs to be done to protect their identity from less reputable ripoffs that may otherwise just intentionally and exactly clone the design.

> needs to be done No it doesn't.

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Post by avar »

saturn8601 wrote: post #15
shrubble wrote: post #10

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Wasn't this idea used by Pierce Brosnan in one of the James Bond films? He was using a cell phone sized device to drive the Q-customized BMW, I think.

Yup! BMW 750iL In Tomorrow Never Dies(1997) [1]: https://youtu.be/gBcOBWq8J6w?t=36 On another note, I find that LCD screen and color pallet they used in the phone cooler looking than the dull flat design muck I am used to seeing everywhere. They basically took those old Green monochrome LCDs and acted as if those screens were naturally going to evolve into some sort of el type display as the next generation. They did…

The phone in Tomorrow Never Dies does have full color HD streaming video from the car as it's remote controlled, look at your own link (and the one pointed out by a sibling comment). The monochrome green UI is just what you see on start-up.

Secondly, the Bond movies are set in the modern day (or close enough). So unlike say 2001 A Space Oddesey the gadgets Q comes up with aren't an attempt to foresee technology development in the distant future.

So the fact that it uses a UI in common use in the mid-90s is to be expected.

Generally speaking (there's some exceptions) no technology in the Bond universe is too outlandish to pass as potential modern day advancements in some top-secret MI-6 laboratory.

Re: New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

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Post by amelius »

geon wrote: post #8
mschuster91 wrote: post #6

> Savant Systems, a Massachusetts-based home automation company, worked with Apple to create a mechanism for remotely controlling the motion of a vehicle using a wireless mobile device. They filed the patent application in 2014, which was granted in 2016. They submitted an updated patent in 2016, which was granted in 2019. Steve Jobs’s name was among the inventors in both these patents. How the fuck is this patent wo…

The US patent system is a joke. Patents are basically granted for anything, and are expected to be resolved in courts.

Is the EU patent system any better?

Re: New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

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Post by mschuster91 »

amelius wrote: post #35
geon wrote: post #8

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The US patent system is a joke. Patents are basically granted for anything, and are expected to be resolved in courts.

Is the EU patent system any better?

Yes, we have much higher thresholds on software patents [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur...

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Post by sumtechguy »

michaelmcdonald wrote: post #28
guappa wrote: post #7

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In the blues brothers 2000 (1998) elwood drove the bluesmobile with a remote. I think that's prior art.

In "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997) James Bond drives his BMW remotely via a cell phone. Now there are multiple instances of prior art. EDIT: corrected which movie

'watch this watch this' - back to the future.
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