Apple patents a paper bag

[LAwLz]

On 9/23/2016 at 0:11 AM, Notional said:

Pointless... even if granted, they would never be able to use it due to prior art.

It's Apple were talking about. You think a minor detail like "prior art" has stopped them from getting patents granted before?

 

 

6 hours ago, CaliJL said:

Don't they need to patent everything they intend to sell? So later on they don't get hit with a lawsuit?

No, because the idea of a patent is that it has to be a new thing. If your patent has "prior art" then it should be invalidated.

For example if you invented let's say a new type of shoelaces which are easier to tie. You start selling your product and then after a while I come along. Since you don't have a patent I decide to submit my own patent for the thing you are already selling. What happens next? My patent request should get thrown out because you can not patent something that already exist. The consequence of you not patenting your product is that nobody can patent it.

That's why nobody has a patent on for example the wheel. Prior art invalidates any attempt at patenting it today.

 

The system is extremely broken though so patents with lots of prior art gets accepted all the time.

[ScratchCat]

If this gets through....

Why do people not understand why Apple is such a Bad company?

[Djole123]

One thing's for sure

Spoiler

it won't have an audio jack

 

[NumLock21]

I borrow comment from gizmodo.

 

Here is Tim Cook announcing the iBag!

 

 

 

[Bsmith]

this is actually not really unusual, any big corp tries to patent everything when they think it is possible.

[spartaman64]

1 hour ago, Bsmith said:

this is actually not really unusual, any big corp tries to patent everything when they think it is possible.

First time I heard of an electronics company patenting a paper bag

[Curious Pineapple]

12 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

First time I heard of an electronics company patenting a paper bag

They did try to patent geometry IIRC....

[PocketNerd]

54 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

They did try to patent geometry IIRC....

They not only succeeded, but they also beat Samsung over the head with it.

[suicidalfranco]

4 minutes ago, PocketNerd said:

They not only succeeded, but they also beat Samsung over the head with it.

And lost

[Space Reptile]

presenting 

 

the iBag

[Prysin]

This bag will be so much better, so much more innovative and totally cutting edge. Our competition has nothing like it.

buy your iBAG today!!

[spartaman64]

1 hour ago, Curious Pineapple said:

They did try to patent geometry IIRC....

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rectangle-with-rounded-corners oh right i forgot about this LOL

[mcraftax]

'It took us courage to make the iBag' - Apple 2017

[Bsmith]

12 hours ago, spartaman64 said:

First time I heard of an electronics company patenting a paper bag

not for me, I came across plastic bottles branded with a small "patent pend." text and number on them at some tech/electronic shows, it's really weird how far some companies can go.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

10 hours ago, Space Reptile said:

presenting 

 

Spoiler

the iBag

 

I'm already camping outside my Apple Store! It'll be mine, I'll be among the first 1,000 people to get it!

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

 

I'm already camping outside my Apple Store! It'll be mine, I'll be among the first 1,000 people to get it!

i heard it rejects wired headphones , only airpods allowed to be store in the new iBag

[richardmajor86]

I don't see how this is a story. Apple design their own bags for their retail stores, rather than outsourcing. Then they patent the design, as is standard practice.

 

This is such a non-story.

[carguy86]

its apple, what do you expect? soon they will probably patent earth....

[vorticalbox]

They haven't patented a bag, what they have is a methods to have a high recycled bag that is white and strong. High recycled materials and bleaching weaken it by a substantial amount.

[Sakkura]

3 hours ago, richardmajor86 said:

I don't see how this is a story. Apple design their own bags for their retail stores, rather than outsourcing. Then they patent the design, as is standard practice.

 

This is such a non-story.

This is not a design patent. 

[spartaman64]

5 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

They haven't patented a bag, what they have is a methods to have a high recycled bag that is white and strong. High recycled materials and bleaching weaken it by a substantial amount.

no they patented the bag not the process of making the bag. the figure in the patent is of the bag and they named it "bag"

[Thony]

Do they sell adapters for people who havent used one yet ?

[vorticalbox]

46 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

no they patented the bag not the process of making the bag. the figure in the patent is of the bag and they named it "bag"

yeah because of the folds it has in order to make it strong enough. basically is a bag folded to make it stronger.