Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter

Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by cxseven on Thursday November 26, 2015 @03:07AM (#10631858)

I wonder how patenting a specific implementation of an already-known thing is allowed. Why is this considered an original invention?

Among other things, it violates the intent of patents "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".

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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by tim333 on Thursday November 26, 2015 @09:05AM (#10632992)

I think they've patented innovations in their thing like you can put it in either way up and it's got a chip with little lights in the end. They waffle on for pages in http://www.google.com/patents/US7311526

I'm not sure they should be able to patent fairly simple upgrades like that but I guess that's the US patent system.

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