Ars Technica : Following a complaint by Eric Swildens, the USPTO has rejected all but three of 56 claims in Waymo's US9368936 patent . The USPTO found that some claims replicated technology described in an earlier patent from Velodyne, while another claim was simply "impossible" and "magic." " The patent shouldn't have been filed in the first place, " Swildens said. " It's a very well written patent. However, my personal belief is that the thing that they say they invented, they didn't invent. " The 936 patent played a key role in last year's lawsuit with Uber. In December 2016, a Waymo engineer was inadvertently copied on an email from one of its suppliers to Uber, showing a LiDAR circuit design that looked almost identical to the one shown in the 936 patent: Swildens said to Wired in 2017 : " I couldn't imagine the circuit didn't exist prior to this patent. " He then spent $6,000 of his own money to launch ...
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