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flexible displays
By CU on 2/21/2013 1:51:19 PM , Rating: 2
How close are we to production ready flexible displays? Assuming Apple is not working on flexible displays, (They didn't patent that did they?) how can they patent something that relies on something they cannot make or buy? Can they patent the holodeck and just assume someone else will create force fields and holograms.

Patents like this bother me. Patent the flexible display, thats fine. It is truly new technology. But patenting everything you apply flexible displays to is wrong. Once you have a flexible display, putting it on a watch, phone, tablet, clothes, etc. is obvious. It would be like someone inventing a new type of fabric that doesn't get dirty and never needs to be cleaned. You can not then go and patent shirts, jeans, etc. made from that fabric.

