Well, the Surface needs access to Apple's late 2011 iPad cover patent application, since it claims a keyboard in the cover (among a lot of other things) .
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Apple Has Licensed iOS Design Patents to Microsoft, Agreement Bans "Cloning"
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Well, the Surface needs access to Apple's late 2011 iPad cover patent application, since it claims a keyboard in the cover (among a lot of other things) .
No.. they don't.
Patent claims are SPECIFIC to the implementation.
Apple's implementation described in their patent claims is different than what MS created.