Today, people patent esoteric things like 1 click checkouts and user interfaces, but it wasn’t that long ago that many items you use every day were patented. I just discovered that the inventor of the treadmill was granted a patent in 1985!
Today, people patent esoteric things like 1 click checkouts and user interfaces, but it wasn’t that long ago that many items you use every day were patented. I just discovered that the inventor of the treadmill was granted a patent in 1985!