surface

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> There is not much to patent in the Surface. All the individual
> components have tons of prior art. It's the combination of them that
> is special. And special it is.

But that's exactly what patents are for.  You can always patent something
that uses prior art, if you use it in novel ways (which doesn't mean you
don't still have to settle with the owners of underlying patents for their
use).  This actually sounds much more patentable (because of novel hardware
use) than most of MS's software patents.
-- 
derek