anywebsite Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I invented the tablet years ago You're not old enough ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Star Trek needs to tell Apple to GTFO!! http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070304233839/memoryalpha/en/images/c/c3/Sarah_Sisko_reconstruction.jpg And The Tomorrow People need to tell both of them to GTFO. Particularly as this one actually look like an iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 And The Tomorrow People need to tell both of them to GTFO. Particularly as this one actually look like an iPad. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 ) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2001interview.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 It's partly Google's fault for being naive too, they know the game, they have the money, but they didn't build up their own arsenal of patents to use defensively. They treated the recent Nortel patent auction as a joke, that let Apple & Microsoft buy Nortel's patents between them. So they've left a lot of Android device manufacturers unable to defend themselves from these attacks. Google have been very canny with this. They could never have outbid a coalition of their six main competitors in mobiles - including Microsoft and Apple who each have more money than Google. Their bidding caused the coalition to pay five times over the odds for the patents and is suspicious enough for them to now be facing calls for investigation into their bid with respect to antitrust laws and there are indications US authorities are doing so. Google may have neutralised the threat from these patents without paying a penny. Antitrust investigations take years - look at how long the Microsoft ones did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 On the other hand there was a patent that was refused on the basis of prior art - the patent was a design for refloating ships pumping them full of air-filled spheres. It was refused because Donald Duck once used ping-pong balls to raise a wreck from the ocean floor in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I just guessed that somebody was selling tablet PCs around 20 years before Apple, turns out that it was a good guess: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6565/GRidPad-1910/ They were manufactured by Samsung too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAxe Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I forget the camera maker now, but years ago a camera company held all sorts of Patents so much so that it seriously hurt innovation. It was Germany that said enough is enough and took those Patents away from them. Camera tech grew substantially after that. Seems to have gone the opposite direction these days. The whole Patent system is corrupt world wide, not just in Euro. You can Patent an idea without the tech proof behind it and sue people for using that tech later on (for example, a company is suing nintendo for it's DS/3DS touch screens.....which is tech made by Philips anyway heh. Also a company tried to sue sony, nintendo, and microsoft for the use of analogue sticks.... they didn't say anything when sega did it first on the saturn... list goes on and on) I could stick a Patent on anti grav boots and sue if eventually they get made into a product... sounds silly but it's easy to do as long as you pay the fees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliceBB Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I read this thread title as 'Aren't Parents a Great Idea?' Any views? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I read this thread title as 'Aren't Parents a Great Idea?' Any views? Mild dyslexia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliceBB Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Mild dyslexia? LOL You might be right, I read 'bowl' as 'bowel' once in an article and I always read 'shopfitting' as 'shoplifting'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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