Re: [Patents] Apple patents (or design patents?)

[Erik Josefsson <erikjosefsson@telia.com>]

On Wed,  5 Mar 2003 12:28:37 +0100 (CET)
<xdrudis@tinet.org> wrote:

> Hello. 
> 
> I've been forwarded this article. It says Apple has patents 
> on the trash icon and many other GUI elements and DRM. 
> http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/04.2.shtml

In espacenet, search Apple Computer, 2878 applications were collected,
500 were displayed, among which I found 38 EPs (some seems to be
gui-related):

EP0242131   Graphical system for modelling a
process and associated method    
EP1209882   Method of providing user
interface for a portable terminal    
EP1207449   A method and system for
facilitating the selection of icons    
EP1261939   METHOD, APPARATUS AND
ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR A TRANSFORM M...    
EP1238371   A TRANSFORM,
LIGHTING AND RASTERIZATION SYSTEM EMBODIED ON A S...    
EP1277132  
CUSTOM STORES    
EP1275071   VIRTUAL BUNDLES
EP1250641   USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING CONSOLIDATION AND ACCESS
EP1249014   METHOD OF TRANSITION BETWEEN WINDOW STATES
EP1242989   GRADUATED VISUAL AND MANIPULATIVE TRANSLUCENCY FOR
WINDOWS    
EP1197870   Method and apparatus for unique address
assignment, node self-...    
EP1180253   USER INTERFACE FOR PRESENTING
MEDIA INFORMATION    
EP1177527   RENDERING TRANSLUCENT LAYERS
EP1174792   A graphical user interface and method
EP1171883   CONVERGENCE-ENABLED DVD AND WEB SYSTEM
EP1156416   A method for editing a theme associated with a graphical
user ...    
EP1152398   A speech recognition system
EP1152323   Method and apparatus for identifying user-selectable
regions w...    
EP1146431   Method for tranforming an arbitrary topology
collection of nod...    
EP1139289   Improved vector quantization
EP1132822   A communication node with a first bus configuration for
arbitr...    
EP1132821   Method and apparatus for arbitrating on an
acyclic directed graph    
EP1105844   GRAPHICS PROCESSOR WITH DEFERRED
SHADING    
EP1094395   Method and apparatus for arbitrating on an
acyclic directed graph    
EP1094394   Method and apparatus for
arbitrating on an acyclic directed graph    
EP1076849   METHOD AND
APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING A COMPUTER    
EP1062782   METHOD AND APPARATUS
FOR MEDIA DATA TRANSMISSION    
EP1051008   Method and apparatus for
media data transmission    
EP1048156   METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA
DATA TRANSMISSION    
EP1042737   METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR
TRANSMITTING DATA REPRESENTING MUL...    
EP1040618   METHOD AND
APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ENCRYPTING AND COMPRES...    
EP1023664  
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENFORCING SOFTWARE LICENSES    
EP1012713  
REPLACEABLE AND EXTENSIBLE NAVIGATOR COMPONENT OF A NETWORK CO... 
EP0998717   A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AN IMAGE-BASED VIRTUAL
REALIT...    
EP0997016   METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAST ELLIPTICAL
ENCRYPTION WITH DIREC...    
EP0996903   ARBITRATING CONCURRENT ACCESS TO
FILE SYSTEM OBJECTS    
EP0989499   Unicode conversion into multiple
encodings    
EP0972386   METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING AND
SYNCHRONIZING INFORMATIO...

//Erik