Most people would design a very similar app if asked to design a weather app. Due diligence would be looking at existing apps in the space and making a decision on how much you want to deviate from the norm.
I once had to make an EPG for a TV app. EPGs are the channel schedules on any cable box interface.
It was stupidly complicated getting the navigation down solid. Took a long time. My boss asked at the end “this is great. Can we patent anything from it?”
Uh, no. Anyone with the same problem (navigating multiple channel schedules at once via arrow keys) is going to come up with something similar.
Same with weather apps. And Apple even has guidelines on app layouts for scrolling vs drilling down nested pages.
Seems like the AI did exactly what a human would do.
… OK?
Most people would design a very similar app if asked to design a weather app. Due diligence would be looking at existing apps in the space and making a decision on how much you want to deviate from the norm.
I once had to make an EPG for a TV app. EPGs are the channel schedules on any cable box interface.
It was stupidly complicated getting the navigation down solid. Took a long time. My boss asked at the end “this is great. Can we patent anything from it?”
Uh, no. Anyone with the same problem (navigating multiple channel schedules at once via arrow keys) is going to come up with something similar.
Same with weather apps. And Apple even has guidelines on app layouts for scrolling vs drilling down nested pages.
Seems like the AI did exactly what a human would do.
Patenting obvious solutions is done all the time and perfectly fine from a legal point of view.