surface

[Dotan Cohen]

On 09/06/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 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.

In any case, it will be fun to steal other student's term papers
simply by naively putting my phone down on the 'wrong' coffee table.

Dotan Cohen

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