“Understanding Apple’s intent to patent every valuable aspect of the intellectual property that went into creating iPhone in 2007 requires a look at what happened a quarter of a century earlier in the development of Apple’s Macintosh,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“After two particularly intense years of patent lawsuits between 2005-2007, headlined by the four outrageous patents detailed earlier, Apple announced the iPhone, emphasizing that virtually every significant aspect of its entirely new experience and industrial design was protected by patents,” Dilger reports. “It wasn’t until nearly three years later that a global patent war erupted.”
Much more in the full article here.