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Submission + - Early iPad prototype appears in litigation against Samsung (guardian.co.uk) 5

Submitted by danomac on Thursday July 19, 2012 @04:59PM

danomac writes: The litigation against Samsung has now turned up an early prototype of the iPad, from 2002. This prototype is shown against the article against the iPad 2 and Samsung's Tab 10.1, and it dwarfs both in size and thickness. It's almost as thick as a notebook.

Samsung is saying the early design isn't even close to what the Tab 10.1 is now. It does, however, feature the same rounded corners as the current generation iPad.

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seriously (Score:1)

by jupiter126 ( 2471462 ) writes:

This is forgetting that the iPad 2 has exactly the same size and colour as the plastic board I used to cut bread for years before it came out!
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  by danomac ( 1032160 ) writes:
  
  I posted it as I thought the prototype was interesting. They don't have the weight of that prototype disclosed, but I'll bet it was freaking heavy, probably 5 or 6 lbs.
  I almost wonder if the designed thought clamshells sucked and just decided to do away with it, and wound up with that.
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    by jupiter126 ( 2471462 ) writes:
    
    My sarcastic answer wasn't at all oriented towards your post but rather toward the actual patent system.
    
    If inventors --- sorry - investors --- keep on using patents like they are ( shape - weight - size ), then we shouldnt be surprized they start to patent colour - material and why not natural states: 'My tablet is a solid: his should be liquid or gas to be different!'
well I have prior art (Score:2)

by fireman sam ( 662213 ) writes:

My coffee table has round corners.
Intersections (and road guttering) have round corners.
The door on my microwave has round corners.
Every phone I have owned has round corners.
How can a company claim that they own round corners.
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  by fireman sam ( 662213 ) writes:
  
  Further to my previous post. I have found a tablet that predates Apple's tablet by a few years.
  The tablet can be seen http://bookshopblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cuneiform.png [wpengine.com]
  It also sports round corners - though the tech at the time was not sufficient to produce perfect roundness.

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