“On January 23, the US Patent & Trademark Office published nine of Apple’s newly granted patents. This patent report briefly covers all nine patents which present inventions ranging from a telephone conferencing application to a peek at one aspect of Apple’s iPod UI, and believe it or not, to a patent which covers Apple’s famous glass staircase which is located in its Fifth Avenue Store in Manhattan. For the record, Steve Jobs is actually listed as one of the inventors of this unique staircase,” neo reports for MacNN.
neo details the patents in his full article here.
There goes the planned “lucite staircase” feature in Vista.
There goes the planned “lucite staircase” feature in Vista.
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And the one in Bill Gates’ house..
Neo saw the iPhone coming from day one.
His New Wave of the Internet series of articles described the
iPhone as it was first being designed, and patents filed.
Neo caught all the patents relevants to the iPhone:
Touchscreen, multi-touch user interfaces, OS X on a pod:
He should stop being an assistant clerk writing about patents,
in a descriptive, boring, and unopinionated way – and tell us
what he thinks of the iPhone and how it fits with the Next
Wave of the Internet.
Come on, Neo, tell us how Apple is going to change the world.
Neo saw the iPhone coming from day one.
His New Wave of the Internet series of articles described the
iPhone as it was first being designed, and patents filed.
Neo caught all the patents relevants to the iPhone:
Touchscreen, multi-touch user interfaces, OS X on a pod:
He should stop being an assistant clerk writing about patents,
in a descriptive, boring, and unopinionated way – and tell us
what he thinks of the iPhone and how it fits with the Next
Wave of the Internet.
Come on, Neo, tell us how Apple is going to change the world.
Neo saw the iPhone coming from day one.
His New Wave of the Internet series of articles described the
iPhone as it was first being designed, and patents filed.
Neo caught all the patents relevants to the iPhone:
Touchscreen, multi-touch user interfaces, OS X on a pod:
He should stop being an assistant clerk writing about patents,
in a descriptive, boring, and unopinionated way – and tell us
what he thinks of the iPhone and how it fits with the Next
Wave of the Internet.
Come on, Neo, tell us how Apple is going to change the world.
That’s the SoHo staircase, not the 5th Ave one (which is spiral).
MY POOOOO!!!!
MY POOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
IT’S…
IT’S …
COMMMMINNNNG OUTTTTTT!!!!!!
Love,
Enderle
Would any of you walk up/down a glass stair conceived by Ballmer and his crew? I know I would not!
I’m ready for the Steve Jobs iHouse, the iCar, the line of iClothing (although I’m afraid it would only be jeans and black mock turtlenecks). Bring it on Steve, you and Jon Ives work brilliantly together.
I am a meat popsicle.
I wonder if Bill Gates has invented any patented ideas… Anyone know?
@montex, I don’t know any patent from BG but he should have patented the idea that NO one will use more than 64K of RAM!!! LOL!!!
Bill Gates has patented the “Monkey Dance”
Actually the “Monkey Dance” would fall under a copyright, not a patent.
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Next week, LG will bring out the Prada staircase and say that Apple copied them.
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“Actually the “Monkey Dance” would fall under a copyright, not a patent.”
That depends on what is making you dance.
montex said: “I wonder if Bill Gates has invented any patented ideas… Anyone know?”
I don’t know about patents but he has copyrighted a new pronunciation of the word “copy”. He pronounces it as “innovate”
Montex, Google Patent Search tells me that William H. Gates III is listed as an inventor on only this patent:
Method and system for processing fields in a document processor
Patent number: 5552982
Filing date: Feb 28, 1994
Issue date: Sep 3, 1996
Inventors: Peter C. Jackson, William H. Gates, III, Bryan Loofbourrow
Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5552982&id=hg0nAAAAEBAJ&dq=ininventor:gates+inassignee:microsoft&num=100&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=1&as_miny_ap=2007&as_maxm_ap=1&as_maxy_ap=2007&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=2007
Steve Jobs, in contrast, is listed as Inventor on 54 different Apple patents.
http://www.google.com/patents?as_q=&num=100&btnG=Google+Search&as;_epq=&as;_oq=&as;_eq=&as;_pnum=&as;_vt=&as_pinvent=jobs&as_pasgnee=apple&as;_pusc=&as;_pintlc=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=2007&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=1&as_miny_ap=2007&as_maxm_ap=1&as_maxy_ap=2007
In other news, Apple is now being sued by the Crystal Cathedral for copying their idea of glass building components.
billy gates has patent on the “blue screen of death” and “control-alt-delete” i wanna hear about the other 200+patents that his steveness mentioned at Macworld
@ Sum Jung Gai:
Good god man, learn how to use Tiny URL, or HTML!