[sdiy] magsafe patch cables?

[John Mahoney]

> > http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2003090321
> >
> > This looks to be a 2003 patent application, withdrawn in
> > 2006. I expect Apple's lawyers jumped on them.
>
>That boggles my non-lawyer mind. I believe that magnetically held power
>cables appeared on Japanese rice cookers many years before they ever
>appeared on an Apple product.

Just because someone "expects" that Apple was behind the withdrawn 
patent application doesn't make it so. Maybe someone else holds a 
patent on it. There are several possible scenarios, so I wouldn't let 
my mind be blown too quickly. (Then again, maybe I'm being naive.)

John