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New Apple Patents

One of Think Secret's readers reports that Apple has been awarded many new Patents at the US Patent Office...

The more interesting ones:


  • The ornamental design for a computer keyboard (March 28, 2000)

  • A method for reformatting alphanumeric objects displayed on a screen of a pen computer system (Feb 29, 2000)

  • Compressing graphic data for a first computer system, e.g. an emulated system, on a second computer system (Feb 8, 2000)

    [edited based on user comments]

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