Your disclaimer aside, patents are becoming as lost as democracy, sold to the highest bidder.
Not only does this exact thing (not something similar) already exist:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/
But patents are supposed to pass a novelty criterion, not something obvious to someone in the industry.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/102
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/103
That patent is for a laptop without a screen.
The law is like the points on Who's Line is it Anyway?, it doesn't matter unless you have money. It drives me mad that one can read the law, which reads plain as day, and then you see it directly violated in the most obvious ways possible. What is even the point of patents these days besides giving more power to our corporate oligarchs?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-imagines-mac-insi...
Patent disclaimers:
- companies file a lot of patents for products they never build.
- patents sometimes sound like generic "patent on a thing" when they are really "patent on a thing done in this particular way". Yes, we know that there have been a lot of computers built into keyboards in the past.
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