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Originally Posted by Thierry.C
What design?
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If they think they have been infringed, they should sue. If the judges agree they should find for Apple. If they don't agree, they should find for the others.
It really is as simple as that.
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Apple doesn’t appear to be patenting the iPad itself, but instead is, in a loose sense, patenting an entire class or market of devices. Apple couldn’t effectively do this with the MP3 market and the iPod because it wasn’t the first entrant to that market. Apple improved upon the the existing field of digital audio players with a solid user experience tied it to an effective ecosystem. Contrast that to the iPad, which essentially created a viable consumer tablet market. No, the iPad wasn’t the first tablet by a long shot, but it was the first to attract worldwide sales in significant numbers. The iPad contributed $6 billion in revenues for Apple in the last quarter; higher than the $5 billion earned by Mac computers.
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