"A person shall be entitled to a patent unless...." among others constraints and many definitions:
Walter J. Blenko, Jr. clearly defines a few concepts here:
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"Considering What Constitutes Prior Art in the United States"
1 A person is NOT entitled to a patent if it is "known or used by others in this country, or was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country" before the application date the of invention by the applicant for the patent. I
2 a patent is rejecet if: "the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States."
3. An inventor is barred from obtaining a patent if he or she patents the invention outside of the United States before the date of the patent application in the United States, and if the application outside the United States was filed more than 12 months before filing the application in the United States.
Honda / Porche / Mercury / Ford / GM / VW and many other manufacturers have been using HUDs and many display technologies in the past just to cover the three applications stated by Apple.
I wonder why the patent office and courts hardly use these items when patent litigations are concerned.
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