<story><title>Moto Razr 2019: A foldable smartphone with no display crease</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/moto-razr-2019-is-official-a-foldable-smartphone-with-no-display-crease/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codesnik</author><text>I wonder how this is even patentable.</text></item><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Most interesting part is the patent picture that shows how they avoid a crease in the screen: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cdn.arstechnica.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;US00000010054990B120180821_-_Google_Chrome.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cdn.arstechnica.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;US000...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arkades</author><text>The excellent engineers at Samsung failed to crack this problem. A little while ago people were saying Motorola must just be showing advertising mock-ups, because how could they solve the hinge problem that a Real(tm) cell phone company could not, with all that engineering talent and R&amp;amp;D funding.&lt;p&gt;Maybe moving the hinges to the side and using sliding supporting plates is more complicated and less obvious than it looks? Problems do tend to look a lot simpler once someone else has solved them for you.</text></comment>
<story><title>Moto Razr 2019: A foldable smartphone with no display crease</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/moto-razr-2019-is-official-a-foldable-smartphone-with-no-display-crease/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codesnik</author><text>I wonder how this is even patentable.</text></item><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Most interesting part is the patent picture that shows how they avoid a crease in the screen: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cdn.arstechnica.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;US00000010054990B120180821_-_Google_Chrome.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cdn.arstechnica.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;US000...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Easy. You show that Samsung spent a zillion dollars trying to make a folding phone and the display still creases. Best way to demonstrate novelty for patentability is to point to an expensive failure to solve the same problem.</text></comment>