Comments on: Ultrabook-makers beware: Apple now owns broad patent on MacBook Air wedge design

By: ploth

ploth — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:25:27 +0000

Judge Koh signed up for two

By: vanfruniken

vanfruniken — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:36:25 +0000

Yeah, a *cube* laptop

By: progressiveagentprovocateur

progressiveagentprovocateur — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:31:13 +0000

In other news, Google announced an exact replica of the MacBook Air to be given away in exchange for a lifetime personal privacy waiver and your eternal soul.

Judge Posner said he had no problem with the Google/Samsung joint effort.

By: Nectar

Nectar — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:23:31 +0000

Leaked Excerpt (SSHQ, 2008): Looks so thin, like paper, no, like air! But substantial at the rear. The lid opens with one finger, the weight perfectly in balance, what does this mean? Careful Yoon, the cable! Wow, magnetic power connectors, OMG!!! I see the light, this is too much, single mould micro hole injection! Oooo, auto backlit keyboard! And so quiet! Oh wait double tap! Double touch! No, multi touch – all the way! I cant take anymore, what does this mean?!? OMG OMG! Kim, fetch R&D from the fields, we have work to do!

By: Cubert

Cubert — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 01:32:14 +0000

These patents apparently don’t mean shit. Why aren’t they enforced?

By: Dmitri

Dmitri — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:14:15 +0000

+1. They can choose some other “obvious” design.

By: Norm

Norm — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:35:26 +0000

I had too much math as I was growing up. The golden rectangle is defined, with sides A and B, A is to B as B is to A+B.
Its a quadratic equation. If A=1, B=1.6180339…
If B=1, A=0.6180339… Its called by the greek letter PHI

By: disposableidentity

disposableidentity — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:10:32 +0000

Notebook computers are virtually indistinguishable too. But that’s because Apple invested the time and energy to invent the best form factor (full-size screen hinged at the back, keyboard towards the back with left and right palm rests and a pointing device between them). After that, everyone copied them for two decades — and counting.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:51:13 +0000

If its no “big Deal” then thieves like ASUS, DELL, HP and especially Samsung won’t mind NOT using it then.

By: The Spaceman Spits

The Spaceman Spits — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:27:53 +0000

MacBook Air is is far more than a basic shape.
It is a “clean, tight, neatly engineered package” housing sophisticated electronics and branded as Apple.

By: WaterLily

WaterLily — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:23:13 +0000

According to my knowledge, the word Golden was impossibly spoken or spelt as you claim. The word that references closest to Golden was Asian predating 1000 BCE meaning the rising sun (4 Chinese Characters). Latin and your ‘EngRish’ were not yet spoken… so you have no ownership to the word, GOLDEN as claimed.

By: WaterLily

WaterLily — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:15:26 +0000

When a design is chosen by Apple they should immediately file for the design patent. Meanwhile, Engineers use the blue prints and Cad models and prototypes are built; all the blame/pressure is on then on the Approval Patent Time for the design. Oh – that is how it works ????
LOL, is it world wide and checked who made it through all the channels first? Really… OH woowwow i see – and so do you tboner.

By: abcd

abcd — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:13:14 +0000

I have to agree. Of course Apple must patent their IP, but with the courts the way that they are, by the time 2,3,4,5 years of trial finish, even “IF” Apple wins an injunction the damage is already done. I always chuckle when I see the pictures of phones from Apple first and then Samsungs. Its rather obvious. There should be a court somewhere with experts to decide patent infringement in 180 days. Six months is plenty to me when something is blatantly obvious.

By: Joe Golden

Joe Golden — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:44:50 +0000

You can’t call it “golden” as my lineage, which dates back to 1200 BCE, already lays claim to it.

By: Jeff II

Jeff II — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:42:18 +0000

Careful, my friend, don’t forget that MS patented both the “squircle” and the letter “e.”

By: Phoenix39

Phoenix39 — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:38:20 +0000

If the shape was ordinary and not as unique as you’re proposing, then why are other companies copying the MacBook Air? Why not stay with the ordinary?

By: Norm

Norm — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:30:44 +0000

My rectangle has the proportions of 1 to 1.618033989….
I think I’ll call it golden.

By: Artist

Artist — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:29:48 +0000

Kinda dumb. Go to Auto site and compare entry level models,domestic and foreign and you can’t tell them apart.

By: TheMacAdvocate

TheMacAdvocate — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:28:44 +0000

Go after them and spend another 2 years and tens of millions on counsel to get jerked around by the court system. Sounds awesome.

By: tbone

tbone — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:24:36 +0000

now we’re patenting shapes. Quick, I just invented the rectangle

By: auramac

auramac — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:15:30 +0000

Tired of watching Apple being ripped off. And then the criminals being defended and embraced by Apple-haters.

Think Different: you don’t want to be an idiot.