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David/Goliath Story Brewing Between Apple and iControlPad Makers

Posted by Soulskill on from the iprior-iart dept.

relliker writes "Apple has just patented a design for an iPhone gaming add-on after admitting that the iPhone is somewhat hard to use as a games machine. The catch is that the design is not theirs. It was designed by a team of gaming aficionados, one member of which, Craig 'craigix' Rothwell of OpenPandora fame, is already twittering like mad about the shot just fired by Apple in their direction. The iControlPad team are in contact with their IP lawyer, since their design is already in production. Will Apple still try to steamroll right through them?"

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  1. what else is new? by pydev · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I looked through Apple's patents that they are asserting against Nokia and have been following Apple patents in general.

    My observation has been that many of Apple's patents are write-ups of well-known techniques or even small variations on other people's existing products. This is the way Apple operates.

    I'm glad this patent illustrates that a bit more clearly than others, but it's basically standard operating procedure for Apple.