Lose at the patent game -- twice; win in the market. Hmmmm..... From the Mercury-News: Apple loses 2nd patent on iPod. And haven't we all eventually discovered that that "killer idea nobody else could possibly conceive" actually is being done by others everywhere:
Posted by Grayson at August 31, 2005 07:12 AM
Legal experts said it's not surprising that other companies beat Apple to the patent office. Advances in technology prompt people to come up with remarkably similar inventions at the same time, said Stanford Law School Professor Mark Lemley.