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Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-invented-the-rectangular-prism dept.

walterbyrd sends this news from ZDNet: "The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office approved Apple's request to trademark the design and layout of its stores last week, according to patent office records. ... Apple has requested that no store be allowed to replicate various features, including 'a clear glass storefront surrounded by a panelled facade' or an 'oblong table with stools... set below video screens flush mounted on the back wall.'"

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  1. Re:What in the fuck? by node+3 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple copied every other fucking phone maker before that enough with apple fan boy propaganda. The Design is NOT new.

    Exactly correct, Doctor "+3 Informative" (at the time of this writing, one can only assume you will exceed +5 before the day is past)! The iPhone copied "every other fucking phone", what with its flip-phone form-factor, its hardware keyboard, its stylus, and, most of all, its lack of multitouch or even single-touch display!

    Fortunately for us all, Samsung invented the minimalist slab-o-screen, multitouch, keyboardless phone years later or we'd all be stuck with Apple's Palm/BlackBerry/Windows Mobile clone!

    Good thing you're around to set the record straight. +1's all around for your mastery of Orwellian doublespeak. You, sir, are a true Defender of the Cause! Huzzah!