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I doubt LCD tvs looked like modern ones in the '70s. So what if whoever (Pioneer?) made the first "modern flatscreen" in the 90's had patented the whole black, fairly thin bezel, single-arm stand with a wide base look of a current TV. Would that make sense, or would that just be an obvious direction the TV industry was going?

I just have a problem with some of these "look and feel" patents that aren't actually on a technology itself. The idea of a rectangular touchscreen phone with rounded corners being proprietary... I just can't understand how anyone would think that's ok.