Having worked at big companies who deal with patents I really don't agree with you. But patents are fairly expensive so that's a good reason to not waste resources on it.blazespinnaker wrote:The patent is serious. There is no requirement for the diagrams (which are for illustrative purposes) need to be exact. Patents are for a range of embodiments which are described in the claims, and to have a picture showing every possible embodiment would be impossible.hast wrote: It's worth noting that that specific patent application was sent in on April 1st. And the drawings on the applications are physically impossible. The phone literally passes through your nose and other parts of your face.
Also, no company in its right mind would ever dick around with the patent office in a million years. Patents are the life blood for these companies.
I haven't looked at this patent in depth but I bet it's just another "place holder" patent where they intend to stake a claim so that if other people move into this area and then Apple wants to do so as well they have some old patents (with no innovative claims) so wave around.
If they were serious about it they would at least design something that's physically possible.