Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

A visual history of Apple patent filings: the brilliant, the bizarre, the just plain bad.

By  |  Monday, December 15, 2008 at 1:19 am

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applepatents-officesystem

User Interface for All-in-One Office System

Filed November 16th, 1995

Okay, now this is just plain weird. It’s part MacBook and part multifunction fax machine…and whoever has been using the example in the patent drawing has left the phone off the hook. Apple not only never made this device, it didn’t come within a country mile of building anything even sort of similar.

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