{"id":641,"date":"2013-05-10T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/Blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2015-10-06T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:32:34","slug":"patents-on-bronze-age-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/patents-on-bronze-age-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Patents on Bronze Age Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

This here is from Apple’s Slide-to-Unlock patent, which is currently being invalidated.
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\nHowever, the question remains why this could be granted in the first place. Laziness? A case of “it said computer, so I turned off my brain”? Or job-blindness “I couldn’t find any prior art in the patent database”? <\/p>\n

Because the amount of prior art is actually staggering. This here is one of the earliest I could casually find:
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\nYes, it’s hieroglyphs, and they’re from roughly 1290 B.C. The topmost hieroglyph is a “z” (or hard “s”), and the symbol is that of a door bolt<\/a>. And since hieroglyphs are rather old, and Seti I. by no means one of the early pharaohs, this means there’s most probably much older evidence out there for “slide-to-unlock”. <\/p>\n

And I’d wager there’s so much more of this crap out there. Chances are very slim that this is an isolated case, this is most probably endemic, system inherent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple managed to get a patent on an invention which dates at least from 1290 B.C. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,88,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-patents-politics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}