http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
But i think this one covers nexus one too well?]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Dunno, the Nexus One's button is a trackball and there are 4 menu keys right above it that are I believe are screen keys and not touchscreen icons so that technically counts as 4 more buttons.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Hardly, the Nexus One has 4 menu buttons and a removable battery cover]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
How long does it take to get a design patent?? That's mad.

Anyway, there is no way to make an all touch screen phone and have it not look like the iPhone. Many PDA's have had this form factor. Not mentioning the LG Prada which was made before the iPhone. The idea of a touchscreen phone is not new. Even I remember posting back in 2005 in slashdot that phones would have to move towards larger touchscreens .. and others had been saying it long before.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163341&cid=13644457]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
I WISH it was 99%. That'd be nice. 3 years ago.

Hello Evo!]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
You're delusional :).]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
I don't feel positively about this. How far exactly does this patent go? And I'm going to have to use this trite argument: how differently can you make a rectangular touchscreen phone look? This can potentially give them way too much room to be aggressors. I completely agree that someone's design should be respected - I do consider ID to be an art - but this...this is just potentially really, really problematic.

You've been a bad, bad patent office. No honeybun for you.]]>Apr 13th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Just because the patent was granted doesn't make it enforceable. The overall design of the iPhone has been around for many years. Basically it looks like a tablet computer but smaller.

Of course if a company purposefully duplicates the exact look of the iPhone then Apple has a case, but just making a rectangular touchscreen phone will not violate any patents.

The U.S Patent office continues to prove what a joke it is.]]>Apr 13th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Does Apple has an insider in the Patent and copyright office? It begis to look like they are granted really dumb patents these days.

iPhone's design form factor isn't the first, it isn't even the 3rd! That people giving them the design patent had better looked into other phones.]]>Apr 13th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Come again? If the iPhone was 99.99% screen, it would be more of an HD2 with 1 button. Don't you see the huge black bars all around?]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/1 button and shrank specs. Very shrank specs.]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
I'm thinking the other way:

Apple should soon file the patent for non-removable battery design on smartphones.]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Sure. Patents aren't actually to encourage the disclosure of useful things that would otherwise remain trade secrets. They're meant to be a means for corporations to mess with each other and create anti-competitive barriers.

We understand alright. Understanding the current nature of the beast doesn't necessarily mean you approve of it.]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Shit man, what do you want them to do... they finally get a patent on a 3 year old device and you STILL want to rip it off? Do you have an ounce of dignity? If you do you can't deny that

-the iPhone was full of great ideas and innovative technologies
-other companies had either copy or innovate around Apple's designs
-the companies that copy should either get permission from Apple or be penalized for stealing the result of Apple's hard work (about 3 years and Lord knows how much money in R&D).]]>Apr 13th 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/1 button and a screen isn't very innovating making a phone with a screen and a button isn't really copying ]]>Apr 13th 2010 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 14th 2010 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Ok second but what you gonna do?]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/They just called their lawyers... >.>]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
That's because Apple is taking over the world (Google's in on it too)

]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/apple/]]>Apr 13th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
They don't need to be reminded of their quota responsibilities by the likes of you, pal.]]>Apr 13th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Wateva]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
I mean, an aluminum body with a plastic bottom where the antennae lies (to minimize shielding). What else? Rounded corners? How the Hell could they have possibly gotten that patent?]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
explain why you think that?]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/they are going to abuse thee FUCK out of this. I predict they're guna sue any mild look alike they can. while it'll be good for getting rid of keepin it real fake phones, i don't doubt they'll take a stab at real competitors.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
plus microsoft is busy making the Kin, HTC is busy making the EVO, and nobody else has the technology to even really make a problem out of it.

So for the moment, who cares?

]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
This article relates to a design patent, not a utility patent.

Learn the law before making ignorant comments.]]>Apr 13th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Correction: The Creative Zii looks like 'IT'.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Ya think I will get it? Stay tuned!]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Well, then you filed for a utility patent, not a design patent - the subject of this Engadget article, so your point/comment is entirely moot.]]>Apr 13th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Lmao...good stuff.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/
Don't Be EVIL........translation in Latin is Don't Be Apple! ]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-granted-design-patent-for-original-iphone-ipod-touch/Apr 13th 2010 1:19PM