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Apple Patent Suggests It’s Borrowing Some Vantablack Tricks for Black MacBooks
Before it started making all of its laptops out of aluminium, Apple offered MacBooks with a matte black finish that, so far, has been challenging to reproduce on its all metal computers. But a new patent suggests Apple has come up with a way to give its latest MacBooks a matte black finish using a…
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New Apple Patent Could Stop You From Taking Photos And Videos At Concerts
If you’re the kind of person who takes lots of photos and videos at concerts, your days might be numbered. Apple has been granted a patent that would let the company to disable photo and video capturing in places where it’s frowned upon.
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Apple Trademarks The Design Of Its Retail Stores
Yes, you are looking at a technical drawing of an Apple retail store. Yes, it does form part of an approved trademark request, which means nobody can imitate Apple’s temples to tech.
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Major Patent Milestones From One To Eight Million
The USPTO granted its first patent in 1836 and 175 years later, the government body now has a database that is eight million strong.