Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
Summary: Really Apple? The iPad design is so new, so unique, that you can use it to legally ban the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from the EU? I Don't Think So.
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And, we can see tablets were still being used in the Star Trek universe in the 1990s with Deep Space Nine.
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RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
Huh?
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Just more fools who don't understand what trade dress
You mean...
...engineers don't design Apple products? Steve Wozniak would be disappointed to hear that, I'm sure.
baggins_z, movie props do count as prior art
Apple patentend the concept of the tablet. They did that without actually making a working protype, just with drawings.
The guy who created that tablet in Star Trek (DS9, TNG, ect) did the same thing, but took a step farther by making a non working prototype.
Steve Jobs can't just come along and say the concept was his because he took the idea and made it functional.
Without that original tablet design, would jobs have ever thought about it?
RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
Could you please enlighten us where could one purchase some of these Star Trek tablets?
Of course, if Steve Jobs stole their design, they could sue Apple, yes? Why nobody has done that yet?
RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
who do you think engineered all the modern wonders that you see all around you? some apple gods? engineering and engineers are the visionaries here, whatever name you call them. engineering dorks...my *&^%.
danbi, Paramont would not sue Apple, or anyone over taking their ideas
and making them actual products. Gene Roddenberry actually encouraged this, and that stipulation was required for all future based Star Trek related material.
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RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
Wrong. It's conceptual. It's a shame the sci-fi writers and designers didn't patent all this stuff first...
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Your not to bright I see. Apple is suing samsung over the concedpt of a square with an lcd in it. technically then Apple stole the concept from the first lcd tv maker and then if it is allowed to stand then all lcd tv makers can sue each other saying patent infringment bringing the fact victrola and rca have had video boxes for decades.
RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
How about the Jensen's car? Will the people who created the cartoon have the rights to any flying car that is ever actually built?
One of the most silly and baseless ideas I have heard in a while.
RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
OK, Apple is God.
Now what else are you going to say?
RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
Dude, I think you are the dork here. Or shall I say the dunce. Just who do you think "designed" the iPad. LOL!!
People, also keep in mind Apple is suing Samsung for "design" similarities. Umm...so then why didn't they sue every MP3 player manufacturer? And how about laptop competitors? The designs are all so close that its actually not about the design. Its about ease-of-use and application ecosystem. Duh Apple!!
RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
Who do you think designed the keyboard that let you write "DORK"
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RE: Apple iPad design - it's been done before (images)
I can't believe they forgot the Tablet PC xD