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Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 04:27 AM EDT |
Contrast the intergalactic, alien, Apple-like tablet with the puny iPad
lookalikes used by the humans.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 05:35 AM EDT |
All the non-"smart" phones I've owned have a grid arrangement of the
icons describing the functions available from the home menus screen.
The smart-phone is a logical evolution of this, so having icons for various apps
in a grid arrangement is not anything new. Why does "do it on this new
device" make it patentable?
With tablets, they are more an evolution of laptop and phone together; laptops
are an evolution of desktops. Going back to Windwos 3.x, the application icons
can be automatically arranged in a grid arrangement in their window; with
Windwos 95, the application icons could go straight onto the desktop [home
screen] in a grid arrangement.
So why is a grid arrangement of application icons [design] patentable? If it's
not, why all this brouhaha over the grid arrangement of application icons.
It all stinks of protectionism because they can't compete fairly by letting the
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