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Tezcatlipoca · 15-08-2005, 22:24

Patenting....1st come, 1st served.

Apple should have filed earlier. Doesn't look like it matters that they had a product, using the idea, out on the market first...not if they hadn't patented it first.

Anyway, it's only one patent, relating to something seemingly similar to part of the iPod's UI. It's not like the whole iPod.

15-08-2005, 22:24	#7
Tezcatlipoca Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cambridge Posts: 16,760	Re: Microsoft patent...the iPod Patenting....1st come, 1st served. Apple should have filed earlier. Doesn't look like it matters that they had a product, using the idea, out on the market first...not if they hadn't patented it first. Anyway, it's only one patent, relating to something seemingly similar to part of the iPod's UI. It's not like the whole iPod.