{"id":199642,"date":"2007-07-09T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/bad-patent-applications\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T16:11:00","slug":"bad-patent-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/bad-patent-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Patent Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ideas about patents is that the idea should be <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">non obvious<\/span><\/span>. <br \/>I saw this sort of display guidance 15 years ago on video games.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2007\/07\/04\/tomtom_camera_satnav_patent\/\">TomTom files patent for camera sat nav<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By James Sherwood<br \/>Published Wednesday 4th July 2007 12:20 GMT<\/p>\n<p>TomTom is attempting to move up a gear in the in-car sat nav biz. It recently filed a patent for a GPS device that incorporates a camera to show the driver exactly where to turn off the road ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the picture of their device:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img115.imageshack.us\/img115\/1528\/tomtomcameraji6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone remember the specific video game that had these sorts of arrows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ideas about patents is that the idea should be non obvious. I saw this sort of display guidance 15 years ago on video games. TomTom files patent for camera sat nav By James SherwoodPublished Wednesday 4th July 2007 12:20 GMT TomTom is attempting to move up a gear in the in-car sat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1139,1109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-ip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}