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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I'm not really convinced by the prior art issue. The Dutch court did the community design on the basis of prior art, specifically mentioning this compaq tablet:
And this may be right as a matter of Dutch law - I don't know anything about Dutch IP law. But purely as a matter of design, I really don't think that that looks much like an iPad at all. |
Exactly.
It doesn't.
But it
does match the generic line drawings and descriptions in Apple's community design document, which is one of the reasons that the Dutch judge threw out the case against the Tab in the Netherlands, along with citing 'numerous' other cases of prior art.
We're going round in circles a bit...
See my posts
#254 and
#255 up thread.
Graham