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Apple Gets a Dock Patent

corante.com » 2008 » October » 9th » Apple Gets a Dock Patent

Tagged: ip markets and monopolies

Apple was finally granted a patent, for which it first applied in 1999, on the user interface construction that has come to be called the "dock". The patent calls it "a userbar" but Apple's own documentation calls it a dock (this image also comes from Apple's site) and that's the term it's generally come to be called. Including all the multitude of reimplementations of the concept. I'm aware of Continue Reading »


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