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  • Apple sued over atrial fibrillation optical sensor in Apple Watch

    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.
    Perfect!
    watto_cobramagman1979mdriftmeyerStrangeDays
  • Apple's iPhone 11 Pro Max versus the Pixel 4 XL compared

    gatorguy said:
    Which one's the knockoff? Oh the one with the chin and forehead.

    IDK who it was on here the Google guy or the Huawei guy who said the knockoffs had solved the notch problem by adding a forehead and chin!! LOL!
    Is there a notch problem? As far as I know they work as intended. 

    EDIT: BTW I'm looking at the pic AI posted and I'm not seeing a chin on the Pixel. Maybe a slightly larger bezel there than on the sides, but certainly no chin as I understand one. 

    There is no real "problem". The complaint is that it exists.

    This discussion was before this Pixel 4. Not sure if he mentioned Pixel 3 or Huawei iWannabe.

    hentaiboy said:
    dewme said:
    Radar is a time proven, reliable, accurate, and relatively mature technology for distance and speed measurement that doesn't suffer from some of  the issues that affect optical and acoustic technology based systems. Nonetheless, it's still impressive to see it scaled down to a smartphone form factor for personal use applications. 
    Yes, first implementation of gesture-based computing on a smartphone only to be dismissed as a “party trick” by the author.

    I wouldn't even call it a party trick. Sammy tried this before and iKnockoff fans were screaming "Innovation!" before Sammy abandoned(surprise!) the feature months later. This is no better than bumping phones which would apparently be the death of Apple.
    Forgot all about the bumping phones!!
    watto_cobra
  • Apple Sunnyvale office described as 'black site' with tenuous work conditions

    Isn't it, Apex Systems, Sunnyvale office?
    racerhomie3
  • No touchscreens coming to pro Macs, says Apple's Phil Schiller

    just...awkward!
    baconstangwatto_cobra
  • How Donald Trump's election as U.S. President could affect Apple

    johnbear said:
    can't believe 59 million people voted for this unqualified, crook, idiot, charlatan 
    If you mean Clinton, you're right!  election results
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