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Originally Posted by afv011
And now apple tries to patent fuel cells for mobiles. I thought you couldn't patent stuff you had no means to develop. I guess I'll rush and patent the transporter (beam me up, Scotty), the phaser and warp drives.
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Who says they don't have the means to develop... patenting has nothing to do with producing a commercially viable method of doing something, it is the means of doing it... if they can make a 6 inch square fuel cell to power a mobile (and it has something unique in it's design) then it can be patented... doing it commercially just means reducing the size then to actually fit in a mobile phone...
Now if you have a viable unit to operate as a transporter then go patent it but I guess you don't even have a basic, non-commercial demo unit let alone actual plans or even a basic tech for doing this...
And don't take the Register word-for-word, they really don't seem to like Apple and what they describe as Apple's patent points are typical for any patents - means, methods, tech etc - and any company in development will try and patent such things because if they don't then someone else WILL and they'll then want licensing fees for work already done... simples