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.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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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.