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Comments: 1 +- Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" on Wednesday October 08 2008, @01:10AM theodp
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theodp writes "If you're a PC, you may be unfamiliar with The Dock, the bar of icons that sits at the bottom or side of a Mac and provides easy access to Apple applications. But don't count on it becoming a standard on the PC. On Tuesday, the USPTO awarded Apple — and inventor Steve Jobs — a patent for their User Interface for Providing Consolidation and Access, aka 'The Dock', after a rather lengthy nine-year wait."
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Which dock? (Score:1)
The dock he stole from Arthur OS? [wikipedia.org]
Funny...I once thought there was something about prior art in IP legislation. You know, the whole "if someone else did it in 1987 you can't stop other people from doing it as of now" thing.
Hell, even if it hadn't been in Arthur, it's been in UNIX since 1989. This is about as ridiculous as Microsoft trying to trademark the graphical file manager or something.
They...haven't tried to do that, have they?