wraggster
June 19th, 2012, 15:49
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/06/googleglasses2.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/project-glass-trackpad-patent/)Remember when Sergey Brin was on The Gavin Newsom Show showing off Project Glass (http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/04/google-testing-heads-up-display-glasses-in-public-wont-make-yo/)' right-sidedphysical trackpad (http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/30/project-glass-trackpad/)? Today, that element of the tech was given the official (http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/15/google-glasses-design-patent/) thumbs-up by the US patent and trademark office. Legally-trained minds in the audience concerned about the appearance forming prior art, take it easy -- the patent was filed five days before the Google chief took to basic cable to demonstrate his pet project to the current Lt. Governor of California.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/project-glass-trackpad-patent/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/project-glass-trackpad-patent/