Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch

Re:Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Trac... by snowwrestler on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @05:11PM (#34903686)

You can’t bury patents, a patent is a public record. That’s the whole point of patents: an incentive to disclose your invention.

If we knew how to do this, but valid patents blocked the broader commercialization of it, then we would not be reading stories about breakthroughs in basic implementations. We’d be reading stories about how companies have products ready to go once the countdown timer hits zero.

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Re:Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Trac... by justinclift on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:41PM (#34904743)

> You can’t bury patents, a patent is a public record.

That's not 100% true, at least for the US:

https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret...

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Re:Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Trac... by tpoacher on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:24AM (#34908839)

Apologies, I didn't mean "hide". I meant "bury". As in, obtain the patent as a means to prevent others from exploiting the technology, but refrain from licensing it or exploiting it yourself, because it would undermine your main moneymaker product.

So, pharma companies trying to obtain "non-invasive glucose monitoring" patents like crazy, to stop other companies from creating such things, because they want to keep selling pinpricks which rely on a consumable model.

Having said that, now that everyone's into "bullshit subscription models", perhaps the era of "bullshit consumables" may be coming to an end.

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