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Re:Another Spanking for Apple from Judge Posner by taligent on Thursday July 05, 2012 @03:55AM (#4202159)
I'm not trying to move any goal post. We are dealing with the major OEMs who are alleged to be infringing. And numerous examples of prior art where ?

All I've seen in this thread is the Neonode. The video games and hardware locks are ridiculous because a patent is NOT a general idea it is a specific implementation of a concept.

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Re:Another Spanking for Apple from Judge Posner by jerf on Thursday July 05, 2012 @10:31AM (#4203161)
"All I've seen in this thread is the Neonode."

It only takes one, and there is no requirement that that one be from a shipped product from a "major OEM". A sufficiently descriptive Usenet post is sufficient. Patents have been rejected because the described object was previously described in science fiction novels.

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