Saturday, October 08, 2016
Wouldn't have been obvious?
Apple wins a patent case. Not really worth discussing; Apple wins all because lawyers and "judges" belong to the same tribe as Apple. But if there was any point in discussing it, I would have said.......
This is not an air conditioner. This is a phone. This is the only phone I own. It was made in 1990. It has a slider toggle on the back, which was STANDARD on phones of that era. (On this particular phone the slider toggle doesn't get much exercise; it's been OFF since 1990 except for one or two days per year.)
Perhaps "judges" have never used an actual phone. Perhaps "judges" always let their disposable unpaid undocumented Mexican servants handle reality so the "judges" can devote full time to obliterating civilization and enriching the Tribe.
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Sidenote: This accidentally runs parallel to previous entry.
¶ 12:55 AM 
A 1992 paper by Catherine Plaisant describes a touchscreen "slider toggle." Apple lawyers said that until the iPhone was unveiled, it wouldn't have been obvious to use such an invention on a phone. "[A] skilled artisan designing a mobile phone would not have been motivated to turn to a wall-mounted air conditioning controller to solve a pocket dialing problem," argued Apple, and the appeals court agreed. "[S]ubstantial evidence supports the jury's fact findings that Samsung failed to establish a motivation to combine," writes Moore.It wouldn't have been obvious to use a slider on a phone?
This is not an air conditioner. This is a phone. This is the only phone I own. It was made in 1990. It has a slider toggle on the back, which was STANDARD on phones of that era. (On this particular phone the slider toggle doesn't get much exercise; it's been OFF since 1990 except for one or two days per year.)
Perhaps "judges" have never used an actual phone. Perhaps "judges" always let their disposable unpaid undocumented Mexican servants handle reality so the "judges" can devote full time to obliterating civilization and enriching the Tribe.
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Sidenote: This accidentally runs parallel to previous entry.
¶ 12:55 AM
