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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Method for Manipulating Objects on a Computer Display

Filed on November 16th, 1992

At first blush, you might mistake the device in the about graphic for an iPhone–at least until you noticed that it’s saying that today’s date is November 1st, 1992. It’s obviously from a Newton-related patent, although the device in the drawings doesn’t look all that Newtonesque.

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