![]() Ross claims that he has suffered "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money" - but that hasn't stopped him from attaching a dollar value to his claim for compensation. ![]() The lawsuit alleges that "instead of creating its own ideas, Apple chose to adopt a culture of dumpster diving as an R&D strategy." It also quotes the late Steve Jobs who said that Apple has "always been shameless about stealing great ideas". ![]() Ross applied for a patent for his designs in November 1992, but as The Telegraph reports, the application was declared abandoned in April 1995, as he had not paid the application fees to the US Patent and Trademark Office. The filing claims that Apple's devices "are substantially the same as his technical drawings of the ERD, and that Apple's three-dimensional derivative devices (iPhone, iPod, iPad), embody the non-functional aesthetic look and feel".Īmong his submissions are a design for a further device - or possibly a combination of two devices, known as the 'Cypher-Text', a 'reading device' and the 'Cypher-Note', a 'writing device' (shown below). ![]() Documentation in the lawsuit includes the drawings of Ross' designs, conceived between May and September 1992. ![]()
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