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by easton_s 1626 days ago
Linus Tech Tips has a current video showing this kind if patent "non-obvious"-ness was broken long before the "with a computer" age. A mechanical calculator had to split the "divide" button into two buttons because another company had a patent on a "single button division" patent.

https://youtu.be/axtQvkSpoto?t=470