Apple Suing Motorola Over Design of Xoom Tablet

[divinox]

After wading through this thread I decided to check out the original document filed to the court about the galaxy.

Apple claims exactly 7 Designelements to be violated:



I'll try my best to translate this for those not speaking german:

(i) a rectangular Product with 4 evenly rounded edges
(ii) a flat clear surface covering the front of the product
(iii) the view of a metallic frame around the flat,clear surface
(iv) a display, which is centered below the clear surface
(v) under the clear surface there is a distinct, neutral boundry on all sides of the display
(vi) if the product is tured on, it shows colored icons on the display
Plus the Tab 10.1 copys the remarkable thin profile of the iPad

Now looking at this list and checking the original document that apple filed to protect its design (http://es.scribd.com/doc/61944044/Community-Design-000181607-0001) I would point out that neither the iPad nor the iPad 2 look very much like the "protected" design (just like the Tab 10.1 does not either) combining this with the broken german injunction system ...

but I'll let you be the judge if those claimed design elements are worthy of protection or maybe and just maybe they have been around for some time (even with tablets)
Image(1996)

Guess that device ticks pretty much every box. Still waiting for Samsung to launch that time-machine of theirs. It would be a GameChanger.

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Apple now owns the capacitive touchscreen. I learn something new here every day!

Not only that, they "invented" it.

 

[KnightWRX]

I think 4 point of contact on a rectangle is way more stable that a point or three points of contacts on a rectangle

I skipped his wall of text on arguing that a car with 4 wheels didn't come from prior 4 wheels vehicules using that configuration and I especially skipped the part about it not being the most stable configuration.

Obviously, the guy never drove a 3 wheeler or a motorcyle.

No, Apple wasn't the first, you can look at Joojoo/Crunchpad.

Or the Maemo line of Internet tablets by Nokia (starting with the 770 in 2005). Apple wasn't the first to bring the idea of a tablet running with a GUI tailor made for it instead of just using a full-on desktop OS.

And what patent are you talinkg about?

He's probably referring to the inexistant patent on "multi-touch". Too bad it doesn't exist

 

[ChazUK]

I skipped his wall of text on arguing that a car with 4 wheels didn't come from prior 4 wheels vehicules using that configuration and I especially skipped the part about it not being the most stable configuration.

Obviously, the guy never drove a 3 wheeler or a motorcyle.

Three wheelers are great!.

(Ahem)

 

[Neodym]

Don't oxen and horses have 4 points of contact with the surface, at the outer corners of a rectangle?

That's true - but when you look at the complete vehicle with one oxen or horse pulling a one-axis "car" it eventually forms a triangle - with the oxen as a whole and the two wheels being the three points of contact for the complete vehicle.

I think 4 point of contact on a rectangle is way more stable that three points of contacts on a rectangle

I only said that generally spoken three (and - depending on the circumstances - one) points are the most stable number of contact points (which is btw. why any good industrial scale is seated on one or three points, as a fourth point would inherently reduce self-balance, leading e.g. to more imprecise measuring results).
With a rectangle you're probably right about 4 corner points being better for stability - because a rectangle is not the optimal form for equal force distribution (which would rather be a triangle or a circle, though those are completely uncommon in car manufacturing for several other - practical and habitual - reasons).

I skipped his wall of text on arguing that a car with 4 wheels didn't come from prior 4 wheels vehicules using that configuration and I especially skipped the part about it not being the most stable configuration.

Obviously, the guy never drove a 3 wheeler or a motorcyle.

This guy could have been be addressed directly if you had wanted to be polite. And this guy does own a motorcycle (sidenote: every motorcycle standing w/o driver does this using a triangle) and tried to give arguments together with a relation to the original topic. But he accepts that you prefer to rather make a pale joke trying to hide that you can't (counter-)argue.

Three wheelers are great!.

Indeed - though it's younger variants are looking a bit more attractive:
Carver one, T-Rex - even Mercedes-Benz is researching!

Only monobikes are not quite there yet...

 

[h4lp m3]

Does this mean Apple is suing Google?

 

[aohus]

Does this mean Apple is suing Google?

Apple has been indirectly suing Google for some time now, when they failed lawsuits against its partners HTC, Samsung, Motorola, etc.

 

[kdarling]

Does this mean Apple is suing Google?

You mean directly? Not yet.

Google said that, until the deal is finalized, Motorola is still the player as far as Apple lawsuits (in either direction) go.