[Simon F]

Originally Posted by Mariner

For the induction charging thing, do they go after HP retrospectively? You know, for the Touchstone charger released a year ago. The patent is for something an (ex) competitor has actually been shipping for a year and Apple themselves still don't have an inductive charger on the market!

I'm not arguing whether prior art exists or not, but you have to go back much further than a year. The patent was filed in January 2008

[Update] It may be slightly earlier still

This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application No. 60/884,014, filed Jan. 8, 2007, which is incorporated by reference.

[Kaotik]

Originally Posted by Simon F

I'm not arguing whether prior art exists or not, but you have to go back much further than a year. The patent was filed in January 2008

Well, Braun has used various induction based chargers since early 1990's, and I'm quite sure they haven't been the only ones

[Simon F]

Originally Posted by Kaotik

Well, Braun has used various induction based chargers since early 1990's, and I'm quite sure they haven't been the only ones

Well, you have to read the claims to determine what the invention is about. <shrug>

[Kaotik]

Ha, in Apple's face
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...udge-says.html

They have to make notice in their UK website and in british newspapers that Samsung didn't copy iPad design

[Grall]

Hard to argue they didn't, when they obviously did (just look at the fucking thing and it's blindingly obvious), that however doesn't mean Apple should have exclusive rights to all metal-backed devices with a black bezel around the screen.

[Kaotik]

Originally Posted by Grall

Hard to argue they didn't, when they obviously did (just look at the fucking thing and it's blindingly obvious), that however doesn't mean Apple should have exclusive rights to all metal-backed devices with a black bezel around the screen.

Well, you can look at ton of tablet pre-iPad and say iPad copied them just as much
The fact that iPad was the "first really popular one" changes nothing