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https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/18/apple-halting-apple-watch-series-9-and-apple-watch-ultra-2-sales/

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Just because you don’t think it’s a novel idea. Doesn’t mean it’s not a novel idea.

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u/abrahamisaninja Dec 18 '23

Pulse oximeters have existed for decades. They are not a novel idea.

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u/Thenadamgoes Dec 18 '23

Improvements to existing things can also be patented.

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u/abrahamisaninja Dec 18 '23

Yes but that does not make it a novel idea

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u/Thenadamgoes Dec 18 '23

…the improvement is the novel idea…

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u/turtleship_2006 Dec 18 '23

novel: of a new and unusual kind; different from anything seen or known before

If it's just an improvement and does the same thing, it's not novel

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u/Thenadamgoes Dec 18 '23

Dude. The world functions on novel improvements of existing ideas.

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u/turtleship_2006 Dec 18 '23

I'm not saying that the improvements aren't useful, I'm just saying "novel" isn't the right word

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u/Thenadamgoes Dec 18 '23

A cup to hold liquid, so you can drink it, is a novel idea. Adding a handle to that cup to make it easier to drink is also a novel idea that improves on the first idea.

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u/One_Curious_Cats Dec 18 '23

The only "novel idea" perspective that matters here is the one of the people at the patent bureau and, later, the one of the people who will re-examine your patent in a legal case. It's ridiculous what they let people patent as novel ideas.