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Originally Posted by kartu
On the other hand, "Rectangle with rounded corners" is still safe and Samsung is still banned from selling tablets in Germany.
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You keep repeating this incorrect statement. But of course it's not what the court said. In either Germany or Australia.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Patents are for ideas, copyright is for concrete expressions. Design patents seem a confusing mix of the two.
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No, you can't patent an idea. Anyone could develop one-click checkout as long as their implementation is different from Amazon's. (Just like anyone could patent a mechanical device that implements the idea as another mechanical device, as long as the implementations are different).
Of course, there may not be a different way of implementing certain ideas, even in software. But it's the implementation that's patented, not the idea.