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Speaking of Rectangles with Rounded Corners, What About Soylent Green's Tablet? ~pj

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 02:15 PM EDT

Hehe, I guess you haven't been paying attention. Early on Samsung tried to
introduce that, but was shot down.

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Speaking of Rectangles with Rounded Corners, What About Soylent Green's Tablet? ~pj - Authored by: jmc on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 02:22 PM EDT
Speaking of Rectangles with Rounded Corners, What About Soylent Green's Tablet? ~pj - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 20 2012 @ 03:16 PM EDT

and on the 2001 promotional posters

Authored by: Boundless on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 03:22 PM EDT

See:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/2001Style_B.jpg

Is there any caselaw on patenting stuff from decades prior science fiction?

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Yes - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 18 2012 @ 03:13 PM EDT

Speaking of Rectangles with Rounded Corners, What About Soylent Green's Tablet? ~pj

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 03:45 PM EDT

Hmm, wonder if Texas Instruments (TI) would like to comment on this. They used
rounded corners on their calculators in the 70's and 80's.

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