But what if this spurns designers and engineers to create designs that are compl...

		Apocryphon on Aug 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Inf... But what if this spurns designers and engineers to create designs that are completely different from before, because anything too similar is out of bounds? Wouldn't that drive them to think more different and wildly and uniquely? We may get a lot of stupid failed attempts out of this, but at least it will put the kibosh on "me-too" designs.

Maximizing the implemented portion of the solution space is not the same as innovating.