Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 23, 2012 @05:09AM from the always-a-good-time-to-borrow-clever-designs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple received a lot of criticism during the Apple/Samsung litigation this past Summer as folks deemed it absurd that Apple was able to patent things such as icon design and the overall form factor of a smartphone. Well as it turns out, it appears that Apple has engaged in some copying of its own in the form of the new clock icon design used in iOS 6 on the iPad- a rather ironic turn of events given that Apple railed against Samsung for copying its own iOS icons. Specifically, the clock icon in iOS 6 on the iPad is a blatant copy of a Hans Hilfiker design to which both the trademark and copyright is owned by the Swiss Federal Railways service."

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Re:so i can't make a clock with no numbers? by crmarvin42 · 2012-09-23 06:42 · Score: 0, Troll

Strawman much? I never stated, or implied they didn't. Only that of all the potentially weak patents they asserted, they lost this one. If that patent and the clock face patent are truly of similar quality, then the Swiss shouldn't expect anymore success than apple saw with the rounded rectangles patent.

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Re:so i can't make a clock with no numbers? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-23 08:42 · Score: 0, Troll

Most Apple fanboys suffer from ADC, which limits their mental abilities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_dementia_complex
It's not worth arguing with them!