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For What They’re Worth, Some Apple Phone Patent Filings

By  |  Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 6:35 pm

I have no idea whether Apple will sue Palm or any other competitor for violating its intellectual property rights. But I do know this: I love patent drawings. So here are a few from Apple patent filings relating to touch interfaces and phones, which I dug up, as usual, at Google Patents. They shed no light whatsoever on Apple COO Tim Cook’s comments today about protecting the iPhone–and some are from filings for patents that haven’t been granted as of yet–but they’re fun to look at…

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  1. Benj Edwards Says:
    January 22nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    Hey, they’re all on the same page! Good work. :)

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