You want to talk about the definition of a patent troll? This is ludicrous. You can't patent the mere prospect of potentially adding an RF device to every material in existence.
Did Apple actually just apply for a patent to keep track of...um...stuff...with RFID tags? And here I was going to use RFID tags as toilet paper! Oh Apple, you're so smart.
Joking aside, this is like knowing that you can use a pipe to move water from one place to another, then applying for a patent to use a network of pipes to supply water to multiple end points from a common start point. Anybody else here ever actually research the origins of patent law (or copyright law for that matter)? If you haven't, I wouldn't recommend doing it. Your findings will just depress you.
Haha. Bravo, sisyphus. :) I was thinking of just using a marker and a t-shirt. Anyway, I think that'd be hilarious to the three people that'd get the joke. Good luck with the sales.
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An Apple patent application just isn't the same without 'the claw'...
You want to talk about the definition of a patent troll? This is ludicrous. You can't patent the mere prospect of potentially adding an RF device to every material in existence.
Did Apple actually just apply for a patent to keep track of...um...stuff...with RFID tags? And here I was going to use RFID tags as toilet paper! Oh Apple, you're so smart.
Joking aside, this is like knowing that you can use a pipe to move water from one place to another, then applying for a patent to use a network of pipes to supply water to multiple end points from a common start point.
Anybody else here ever actually research the origins of patent law (or copyright law for that matter)? If you haven't, I wouldn't recommend doing it. Your findings will just depress you.
Looks to me like they're patented:
RF Car bomb
RF Shoe Bomb
RF Rucksack/Handbag bombs
RF iBomb
House roof
Its a conspiracy I tells ya!
You guys really ought to check out MY patent application:
http://www.zazzle.com/shirt_having_built_in_pocket-235988739533756680
Haha. Bravo, sisyphus. :)
I was thinking of just using a marker and a t-shirt.
Anyway, I think that'd be hilarious to the three people that'd get the joke.
Good luck with the sales.