[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)_/¯