This 18 Year Old Tablet Design May Invalidate Apple's iPad Design Patent [Video]

Posted March 29, 2012 at 7:26pm by iClarified | Please help us and submit a translation by clicking here | 22721 views

In its in depth look at Apple's war against Android, Bloomberg notes that a 1994 Fidler/Knight Ridder tablet design raised substantial question regarding the validity of Apple's patent on the iPad's design.

Apple got even more discouraging results on its iPad design. Again peppering her ruling with handy graphic illustrations, Koh showed how the crude-looking 1994 Fidler/Knight Ridder tablet, designed for reading newspapers digitally, created "the same basic visual impression" as Apple's D'889 patent for the iPad. "The Court," she wrote, "therefore finds that Samsung has raised a substantial question regarding the validity of the D'889 patent on obviousness grounds." So, maybe the iPad's design is up for grabs! In any event, Koh declined to enjoin Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.

You can see that tablet design being presented in the video below...

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Oneal - March 31, 2012 at 3:59pm

I don't give fuk who made the iPod ,iPhone and iPad .its good stuff I love it .keep making more and better one .

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laeno - April 2, 2012 at 12:37pm

yea the fuk i dont care, about making the iphone, ipod, and touch penis. i just care to about the make more best next one. to play me i can eat penis, i love it... SIN SEAR LEE harvey oswald ONEAL

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Kevin - March 30, 2012 at 2:26am

So the iPad is Jewish after all!

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sidewinder - March 30, 2012 at 12:45pm

Look what you did you little jerk. you're what the French call "les incompetents".

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Bman - March 30, 2012 at 3:45pm

What are you talking about? Are you angry that a Jewish person invented something? I am unable to follow the logic of your comment?

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Roughie - March 30, 2012 at 12:59am

Sure, at that time, all that seemed impossible. In-page Embedded video in an era when even on-screen tv graphics hardly looked professional. But you know what Jobs did? He made it work! He made a product that not only looks great but basically just works right out of the box. And that's the tribute we should pay to him for.

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WaterLily - March 29, 2012 at 9:25pm

http://www.rjionline.org/people/roger-fidler no mention of owning patents - he envisioned a tablet computer one day to be as good as the printed page. What came first the Chicken or the Egg? Did Donald W. Reynolds see the movie made in 1968 - Stanley Kubricks, 2001 a Space Odyssey... and copy the Tablet idea from there? COME ON now. Apple made a product patented it entirely. Done.

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kiz - March 29, 2012 at 8:43pm

So Steve Jobs is not such a clever clog after all!

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STEVE CLOGs - March 29, 2012 at 8:44pm

OFC NOT... APPLE WITHOUT JOBS INVENTED NEWTON.

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WaterLily - March 29, 2012 at 9:02pm

Steve jobs did not invent the iPad or iPhone. His genius is how he timely teamed his company to the time of technologies hence seeing and inspiring the project into realization.

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snakeeye - March 30, 2012 at 1:31am

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE DOUCHEBAG. STEVE JOBS WAS 300000000000000000000 TIMES SMARTER THAN YOU. SHUT YOUR TRAP AND GO BACK TO YOUR DRIVE THRU JOB AT MICKEY D'S. By the way, I'll have a medium fries with that serving of poanage.

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max - March 30, 2012 at 9:37am

The film 2001 had a 'tablet' others have had a tablet design since, but the one in this video shows a mock up using a stylus not finger and pinch zoom etc. I don't believe Apple ever said they invented the idea of a tablet- -but that doesn't invalidate specific technology combinations and innovations in delivering a real product rather than a mock up.

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