Ducking for Apples: '2001' and the iPad. Samsung's lawyers are fighting Apple's look and feel tablet injunction with some famous pre-Apple iPad help. Pointing out that the "2001 - A Space Odyssey" characters used tablet computers that look suspiciously like the iPad is interesting. As this author points out, however, tablet computing goes a lot farther back in science fiction, from Startrek to Jules Verne. If Apple is permitted to control how we box up our computing tools, innovation will die. In fact, patent lawyers, help me here. Isn't there something generic about computing on a flat screen that is unpatentable? Please educate my readers and me. As a matter of fact, is that an iPad or a Galaxy Tab or an Asus Transformer that Picard is holding in this clip?
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August 29, 2011
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Tablet computer is already available for long time when they are still used with pen like counting with paper and pencil on clipboards...
I think I read from a comment long time ago about the innovations in movies can't be patented, or else many of the modern technologies would need to pay license to movie makers.
Know about the detail of the rule ?
Posted by: Seika | August 29, 2011 at 08:48 PM