Re:Apple halts US sales of Watch before Christmas after losi...
by varispeed on Monday December 18, 2023 @06:47PM
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Given what is being approved as a patent these days (basically anything goes in), I wouldn't consider this as an exception.
Generally speaking, the patents should describe the invention in such a way that anyone competent in the field could recreate it. So I don't see how the fact the Apple has hired that team has any relevance to this.
Maybe the patents should have been invalidated too.
Hiring a team and rebuilding something that is not patented, or that skirts the edge of a patent, that's just fine. Hiring the team and building the patented thing is bad, not because of hiring the team, but because of building the patented thing. That it's the same team is just evidence that it infringes on the patent.