ImAlwaysRight

The Doctor is not going to win. Anyone that thinks he has a case knows nothing about patents and how they work. Apple has filed so many patents on their watch already that have been approved by the patent office. Patents are issued for improvements on already patented inventions all the time. They are actually called Improvement Patents. There are now 35,000 relating to drones since only 2016. Why? Products can be very similar without violating patent laws because patents do not protect products. Patents protect inventions. This subtle distinction explains why very similar products do not automatically violate patent laws. An invention can be patented if it is novel. Even if something similar exists, an invention is patentable if the elements in it are not obvious. For example, cameras and cell phones are known technologies. However, the combination of the two was once not obvious. Even though cell phone cameras are similar to other cameras, they appear in a combination that was not obvious . Products can be similar without violating patent laws if the inventions that underlie both products are different. For example, computers by Apple share similarities to computers by Dell. However, the individual elements that make up an Apple are sufficiently different from the elements that make up a Dell. RAID systems provide another excellent example. A RAID system is a type of memory used in large servers. There are hundreds of different patents for RAID systems, each configured differently. Look at the different streaming devices for you television, ROKU, Apple TV, GoogleCast. This doctor designed a medical device that measures someone's heartrate in a very specific way and calculates the measurements in a very specific way; the device is not a watch! Look wireless Bluetooth headphones. Lots of manufactures. Apple has gotten different patents on their watch that have been granted by the patent office because they deemed those acceptable to receive a patent based on their subject rules for what they consider new technology or improvements to existing inventions. Apple has spend millions on attorneys to get those new tech or improvement to new tech.