I think this is the hinge but I don’t really see how it’s such a novel idea that Asus is infringing on it. I know that complexity isn’t a direct factor but some of these other hinges are much more involved so I can understand that they needed to innovate hinge. The more I look into it, the more I think this lawsuit will fail, Lenovo seems like they just tried to patent every possible variation of a gear hinge for a laptop.
This is the abstract from a patent for ‘Hinge assemblies’ (also what I will be calling dates from Hinge from now on) - “An apparatus can include a processor; memory accessible by the processor; a first housing that includes a front side and a back side and a thickness therebetween; a second housing that includes a front side and a back side and a thickness therebetween; a first gear operatively coupled to the first housing; and a second gear operatively coupled to the second housing where the first and second gears mesh to orient the first and second housings in a front side to front side orientation and in a back side to back side orientation.”
I am not saying that they do or do not have LEGAL claim to what they are saying but it seems like when you have 59,571 patents globally, it seems unlikely that they are genuine innovations and if if another company has a similar design its because they stole Lenovo’s unique ideas, especially with how generic some of their patents for hinges are.
I don’t know really but its my opinion that you should have to innovate on something pretty drastically to own the right to license its use for 20 years, especially when you’re clearly patenting everything you touch. Anyways down the rabbit hole I go
I think this is the hinge but I don’t really see how it’s such a novel idea that Asus is infringing on it. I know that complexity isn’t a direct factor but some of these other hinges are much more involved so I can understand that they needed to innovate hinge. The more I look into it, the more I think this lawsuit will fail, Lenovo seems like they just tried to patent every possible variation of a gear hinge for a laptop.
This is the abstract from a patent for ‘Hinge assemblies’ (also what I will be calling dates from Hinge from now on) - “An apparatus can include a processor; memory accessible by the processor; a first housing that includes a front side and a back side and a thickness therebetween; a second housing that includes a front side and a back side and a thickness therebetween; a first gear operatively coupled to the first housing; and a second gear operatively coupled to the second housing where the first and second gears mesh to orient the first and second housings in a front side to front side orientation and in a back side to back side orientation.”
I am not saying that they do or do not have LEGAL claim to what they are saying but it seems like when you have 59,571 patents globally, it seems unlikely that they are genuine innovations and if if another company has a similar design its because they stole Lenovo’s unique ideas, especially with how generic some of their patents for hinges are.
I don’t know really but its my opinion that you should have to innovate on something pretty drastically to own the right to license its use for 20 years, especially when you’re clearly patenting everything you touch. Anyways down the rabbit hole I go