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zerohp on Aug 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tim Cook memo: line by line

Sensible people considered these minor features too obvious.

Apples invention was the combination of many simple things into one good product, but they are protecting it by patenting all of the simple things.

ciniglio on Aug 25, 2012 [–]

To be clear, if this were actually the case, the $$ that Samsung spent on this suit would have clearly uncovered this as prior art.

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