Apple managed to get a patent on an invention which dates at least from 1290 B.C.

Apple managed to get a patent on an invention which dates at least from 1290 B.C.

Just like the old Robot Patent (by Emperor Joseph II) this is of course all about rent-seeking. As we’ve noted in The Moby Dick Support Device, some egregiously stupid patent-officers started accepting patents based on the un-reasoning that a computer running a program makes it a different computer, just as a bookshelf which is used…

Just like the old Robot Patent (by Emperor Joseph II) this is of course all about rent-seeking. As we’ve noted in The Moby Dick Support Device, some egregiously stupid patent-officers started accepting patents based on the un-reasoning that a computer running a program makes it a different computer, just as a bookshelf which is used…