{"id":1777,"date":"2007-01-10T14:22:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/01\/a_kind_of_adden\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:22:48","slug":"a_kind_of_adden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/a_kind_of_adden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kind of Addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short aside from the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001917.html#001917\">previous piece<\/a> on Apple. In the presentation, Jobs pointed out that Apple had got more than 200 patents on various parts of the iPhone. And a recent Audi A6 TV ad talks about how it has taken out more patents than NASA has ever taken out for its new car (9,621 filed).<br \/>\nAm I the only person who thinks that extreme numbers of patents are actually a really bad thing? I mean are there 10,000 <em>different <\/em>components actually in a new car that can be patented?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short aside from the previous piece on Apple. In the presentation, Jobs pointed out that Apple had got more than 200 patents on various parts of the iPhone. And a recent Audi A6 TV ad talks about how it has taken out more patents than NASA has ever taken out for its new car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}