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Apple Files Patent for Translucent Windows
jpkunst writes "John Kheit at Mac Observer reports on US Patent Application No. 20040090467, published on May 13, 2004, in which Apple filed a patent application for 'Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows.'" Begin the hunt for prior art! It's a challenge to find a non-Apple translucent window that isn't just a snippet of desktop wallpaper pasted in the background.
Yeah, I've got some windows with graduated transparency that can be manipulated. They're in my FREAKIN' CAR.
"Translucency has been around for a while, but Apple is filing for time dependent translucency."
Translucent windows?
(looks outdoors)
How are they new again?
Heh, this is Slashdot.
I'm not sure Slashdot editors ever RTFA, if they do, those that do never apply critical thinking about the subject at hand. Slashdot editors don't really even edit much either, it seems. The best most of them do is pick of which stories to post a dupe.
If slashdot was around when Edison was alive, someone here would claim that his lightbulb patents were invalid because the sun was prior art.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Patent 4058738294:
Prevention of sleep apnea by means of a large sign affixed above the patient's bed bearing the message "REMEMBER TO BREATHE"
Do you suppose Microsoft patented Transparent Government and that's why we can't have one?