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technologizer.com - 12/15/2008

Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

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Apple may be famously secretive, but there’s one guy the company has been confiding in for more than three decades now. That would be its Uncle Sam, in the form of the U.S. Patent Office. The company’s patent filings are a remarkable record of Apple’s brainstorms, from its ...

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technologizer.com - 12/15/2008

Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas | Technologizer

— technologizer.com — applepatents-appleii Microcomputer for Use With Video Display Filed April 11th, 1977 This is the first drawing in... the first Apple patent, and while it’s prosaic from an aesthetic standpoint, it might be the single most significant one of them all. It ... (more) Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big ...

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