Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

A visual history of Apple patent filings: the brilliant, the bizarre, the just plain bad.

By  |  Monday, December 15, 2008 at 1:19 am

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Apple Patents Original Mac

Desk Drawer User Interface

Filed June 7th, 1995

This illustration is from an operating-system patent, not a hardware one, but it’s such a pleasingly iconic portrait of the Mac in its original form factor that I had to include it. If Apple ever follows Microsoft into the T-shirt biz, it would make for one cool shirt.

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