iBags 1-6 will have those string handles...
BUT iBag 7 will innovate and lead the bag world into a new age by eliminating the handles...
I can't wait
I guess when you got nothing left - you go for what's already around you?
Here's hoping this patent is tossed on the trash heap as it should be! There is nothing novel AT ALL in claims 1 or 13, the two independent claims in the patent. I'd be embarrassed to even have my name on such a patent application (and I do have a dozen issued patents, and another 18 in pending status - all utility patents).
This is ridiculous.
Gain a patent on it, then refuse to license any production.
Fiendishly clever way for enviros to rid the world of bags.
That’s not a patent yet, it’s an application.
iBags 1-6 will have those string handles...
BUT iBag 7 will innovate and lead the bag world into a new age by eliminating the handles...
I can't wait
It’s not just an ordinary bag, it’s an iBag. Big difference.
Since they just lost a big patent lawsuit, maybe they are trying to discredit the whole patent system.
Jeez Dan, you are so easily offended ... you should retreat to a “safe place” where Apple is never mentioned or encountered. Actually, they’re not patenting a paper bag, they’re patenting a process that will allow them to create a quality product that is attractive, holds together but is recyclable.
Looking forward to more of your amusing postings created by your special snowflake fingers. Meanwhile, below is an extract from the article.
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“...Recycled paper bags are not an innovation, of course. The innovation, in this case, is how Apple intends to hold the bag together with such a high proportion of recycled material. White paper bags made of recycled material tend to be fairly flimsy due to the amount of bleach used, so Apple has come up with a bundle of alterations that should help its bags remain both pearly white and environmentally friendly.
Those alterations include fancy reinforcements at the folds and gussets of the bag, another one at the bottom that sticks to the sides, and a handle “formed entirely of paper fibre yarn knitted in an 8-stitch circular knit pattern”....”
This forms the foundation for the new iBag.
They haven’t patented anything with this. It is an application, not a patent.
By the time it issues (if ever) it will have much narrower claims.
Perhaps Apple’s CEO should patent a plastic bag and put it over his head.