Apple's patent : iPad is a rectangle with rounded corners
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| henke54 Nov 09, 2012 11:15 AM EDT |
Quoting:Earlier this week, Apple got a bunch of new patents approved, including one covering the "design" of the original iPad.http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/apple-ipad-paten... |
| helios Nov 09, 2012 12:11 PM EDT |
This patent confuses me, on G+ there was a link to an article that showed examples of "prior art" that would not be covered under this patent. The Ipad was one of them. ??? |
| gus3 Nov 09, 2012 4:36 PM EDT |
A rectangle with rounded corners. Now, let me think, I've seen that before.... Oh, yes! Credit cards! Library cards! Drivers' licenses! |
| caitlyn Nov 09, 2012 4:41 PM EDT |
You have to admit that the iPad is a rectangle with rounded corners. They aren't lying about that. Oy vey! |
| Bob_Robertson Nov 09, 2012 4:58 PM EDT |
Patenting an aesthetic. Jobs is truly dead. |
| JaseP Nov 09, 2012 6:38 PM EDT |
No,... Jobs is the one who had them PATENT the aesthetic... Rounded rectangle computer tablet device...It was so obvious that Stanley Kubrick had one in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Which, despite the fact that it wasn't a real device, ought to be enough to prove that the the design is neither novel or non-obvious. After all, design patents only cover things like the plastic "barrel full of monkeys" toys, or dinosaur shaped non-slip tub decals. |
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