What gets me is how an injunction can be filed for industrial design related problems and nothing to do with the software/hardware patents itself. It looks too similar, it has icons, it's in the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners. These are just too fundamental to OS and computer design and not innovative enough to be able to grant a patent for IMHO.
All of these ideas and things Apple is claiming were fundamental to OS design and tablets that existed before Apple created the iPad. Unfortunately they were the first to file and now they are just trying to stamp out the competition. This type of system is bad for consumers all around, drives up the price of all products and stifles innovation.
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