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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
But a company keeping a stealth patent for a very trivial "design" hidden until a competitor independently designs and markets such a product, then springing it as a weapon to stifle competition, is very, very wrong.
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I guess. Fortunately, the patent was for a highly
specific design, namely of the K1.
Also, there is zero indication of Amazon using this as a "weapon to stifle competition." They haven't filed a lawsuit, and the patent is so specific that they couldn't halt anyone unless they did a direct knock-off of the K1.
The mistaken speculation that "Amazon can use this to sue B&N" is just sloppy blogging, not a real situation or even likely to happen.