[DannyBee]

These are design patents, not utility patents. It's not a patent on all wrapped windshields, it's a patent on windshields that look like nikola's. The fact that someone somewhere made wrapped windshields once is irrelevant here (but would not be in utility patents)

To use a slightly crappy analogy, it's like patenting your ui, not your algorithm.

[dragonwriter]

> To use a slightly crappy analogy, it's like patenting your ui, not your algorithm.

To use a less crappy analogy, it's like the patents on smartphone case shape and layout that were at issue in Apple-Samsung.

[DannyBee]

Yeah, i tried to avoid that one because people did the same thing there ("rounded corner phones existed before!"), but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯