No, he had Xerox
Xerox made the true iPad, iPod, iPhone and glass staircase?
My word, those higher ups must of really been daft.
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A Look at Steve Jobs' 313 Apple Patents
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Xerox made the true iPad, iPod, iPhone and glass staircase?
My word, those higher ups must of really been daft.
MS patents
" Just nine Microsoft patents carry the name of Bill Gates, who was a co-founder of the company and its chief executive for more than two decades before stepping down in 2000. "
..and that's because he never came up with anything new either - he just copied Apple from Day One!!
Nig.
" Just nine Microsoft patents carry the name of Bill Gates, who was a co-founder of the company and its chief executive for more than two decades before stepping down in 2000. "
..and that's because he never came up with anything new either - he just copied Apple from Day One!!
Nig.
Andre' Bartley is a well known interface designer at Apple. He's been in that position for quit a few years.
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Last time I read anything about pixar jobs owns 7% of the shares making him the largest shareholder of the company also holding a position on the bod or have I missed something?
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Last time I read anything about pixar jobs owns 7% of the shares making him the largest shareholder of the company also holding a position on the bod or have I missed something?
So to build or design another glass staircase that sits like the one Apple made, would you have to have the steps fitting in differently or something?
What?!
How the hell do you patent a glass staircase?
Or is it more generic, like "a device to move you from one floor to another, made out of a material you can look through, or can't look through"
Are you sure there wasn't any prior art?
I also wondered how this could be a patent? ... like having a patent on the Golf club
I also wondered how this could be a patent? ... like having a patent on the Golf club
There are now two major kinds of patents. One is an invention of something. The other are for specific designs ( the exactly "look and feel" of a product).
Most of the Jobs attributed ones are design pattens. So while the design is being formulated Jobs makes a comment on some of the rough drafts ( 'make that stair step wider' , 'make that railing come out another 1/5 inch" , or even simply "make the staircase out of glass" leaving the details to the rest. ). That's enough to get his name on the design patent. It is a component (possibly very small one) to the design, but not necessarily the major.
Since Jobs is in charge of critiquing every single preliminary design at Apple, it would be almost trivial to get his name onto the patents if he finds anything in those he doesn't like where the correction makes it into the final version.
Design patents are suppose to help stop "blatant copy cat" products. You can still make a glass staircase. You just can't make it a bolt-for-bolt , glass-pane for glass-plane exact copy of the Apple one. Change the riser support details, the handles, the vertical trim, etc. and it is different enough.
Yes but Jobs didn't have Tesla to copy off.
Imagine if Tesla had Steve Jobs to promote his products!?We would be 100+ years in the future with modern technology. Were so slow pace, most of his inventions are still only recently being understood, completely unknown, or considered "new and great!"
Well, in a word, yes. Given that iOS is basically OS X, and OS X is very much an evolution of the classic Mac OS, which was an evolution of System 7, which was an evolution of the original Apple operating system, which was inspired in no small part by Xerox.
By the way... neither the iPad, iPhone or iPod are truly original ideas. The iPod wasn't the first hard-drive based MP3 player, the iPad was far from the first tablet, and the iPhone certainly wasn't the first MP3-capable smartphone with its own OS.
The only thing that really sets apple products apart is appearance and operating system.
And if you think Jobs is solely responsible for all the hit Apple products... I'm afraid you're fooling yourself more than a little.
No they didn't. PIXAR wrote tons of unique software over the years. Bill Catmull has a lot of patents. By the way, it was only recently that former NeXT Engineers from Apple came over to revamp and write a new phase of software with PIXAR engineers.
What?!
How the hell do you patent a glass staircase?
Or is it more generic, like "a device to move you from one floor to another, made out of a material you can look through, or can't look through"
Are you sure there wasn't any prior art?
I don't see a lot of glass staircases out there. Why not? Because glass is an intrinsically bad material to build staircases out of. It presents structural challenges, it shows dirt, etc.
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Honestly I get the feeling that most of the people opining on patentability have never read an actual patent. A patent includes a list of "claims", each of which describes an original component of the design. Violating just a single claim still constitutes violating the patent. Obviously, if you made the steps a slightly different shape, had a different number of steps, or did any of the other silly things people are suggesting as variants, you still might be violating some of the many claims. Even building a glass wall might infringe, if it violated a claim in the staircase patent.
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That's right, PIXAR was once considered a leading organization in moving computer-based animation technology forward.
Doubtful Tesla would have worked for Jobs. One, Tesla was more devoted to invention than commoditizing a specific product. What is more likely is Jobs would see a Tesla product (demo , in market , etc.) and drive a team of folks to mutate it into something that was a commodity. (e.g., Xerox demo --> Lisa/Mac , other folks ship misguided MP3 players --> iPod , take Newton off market and watch PDAs merge with phones ---> iPhone , etc. )
Apple very much does "pebble pushing" R&D (e.g., build a better portable AC generator ) and not "pile driving" R&D ( invent the whole AC power transmission methodology). "Pebble pushers" fill in the "holes" that the "pile drivers" form along the edge of what is "know". One is expansive and other is refinements. You can label both "innovative" but they are two different things.
What????? No. Claims have to consist of a set of constraints that limit the extent of what is covered. Stepping outside of those limits is enough to get you out of the scope of a claim. You can't claim "stairs" or "club" or "wheel".
For design patents the "claim" is largely "it looks like this" followed by some drawings that provide prospective. If something differs from the drawing then it is outside the scope of the claim.
Uh hello....the next iphone is there?
Uh HELLO....why has NO ONE commented on the last IOS device in the patent list over to the right?? IS THAT THE IPHONE 5??????
Uh HELLO....why has NO ONE commented on the last IOS device in the patent list over to the right?? IS THAT THE IPHONE 5??????
Yes but apparently Jobs' patents are for silly things like a staircase and a cardboard box. (How can you even patent those?) Edison's were for things like the phonograph and the light bulb.