alt Hacker NewsSomething is terribly wrong with the patent system if anything about sticking the innards of a commercially-produced camera into a different-shaped metal case is patentable.
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zipy124 • last Tuesday at 7:23 PM
There are design patents specifically for looks[1], in other countries such as the UK where I am from this is known as registering a design rather than using the word 'patent'[2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent [2]: https://www.gov.uk/register-a-design
If Nintendo can patent game mechanics despite prior art, anything’s possible.