# And here comes apple suing more companies now that they have this...

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**Created:** [April 8, 2010, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/and-here-comes-apple-suing-more-companies-now-that-they-have-this/153023 "2010-04-08T09:04:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tunerfreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tunerfreak/32/7427_2.png) [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/and-here-comes-apple-suing-more-companies-now-that-they-have-this/153023/1 "2010-04-08T09:04:46Z")

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> **[Apple granted design patent on Cover Flow](https://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-granted-design-patent-on-cover-flow/)**
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> It was patent-grantin' day at the USPTO on Tuesday, and while most of the patents handed out to Apple, HP, Microsoft and others were pretty boring, it looks li...

seriously how can the USPTO allow that to be patented it just seems stupid to me

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**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/and-here-comes-apple-suing-more-companies-now-that-they-have-this/153023/2 "2010-04-08T09:30:22Z")

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why shouldn’t they be allowed to patent that?

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**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/and-here-comes-apple-suing-more-companies-now-that-they-have-this/153023/3 "2010-04-08T09:32:39Z")

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Wanna know how I know Apple is gay? They used coldplay in their patent.

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**Author:** ![Tunerfreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tunerfreak/32/7427_2.png) [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/and-here-comes-apple-suing-more-companies-now-that-they-have-this/153023/4 "2010-04-08T09:51:50Z")

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> [@theblue](#):
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> why shouldn’t they be allowed to patent that?

because it has nothing to do with how it works just how it looks

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**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/and-here-comes-apple-suing-more-companies-now-that-they-have-this/153023/5 "2010-04-08T10:08:42Z")

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> [@ProgRocker](#):
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> Wanna know how I know Apple is gay? They used coldplay in their patent.

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