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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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Cathode Ray Tube Display and Stand

Filed December 18th, 1998

I’m including this drawing mostly because it looks like an iMac that’s sprouted legs and may well skitter away like a giant three-legged robot spider at any moment. But as the patent title says, it’s really a CRT monitor (an early Apple Cinema Display design) on a stand.

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