EPA. (2012) ‘Rare Earth Elements: A Review of Production, Processing, Recycling, and Associated Environmental Issues Processing, Recycling, and Associated Environmental Issues’, United States Environmental Protection Agency. Features relied on by Apple • Apple submitted that the similarities between the design and the Samsung tablets could be divided into the following seven features:

Samsung contends that its tablets do not infringe. It submits that when the registered design is understood in its proper context, bearing in mind the existing design corpus and the degree of freedom of the designer, the overall impression the Apple design produces on the informed user is a different one from that produced by any of the three Samsung tablets. Other input methods are gaining traction too: Microsoft’s Kinect, for instance, has given rise to interfaces that use spatial gestures. Just like in “Minority Report,” your devices can be controlled simply by waving your hands in the air. The term "handheld computer" is the Art 36(2) indication of the product in the Apple registered design. Whatever the correct definition of the relevant product is in relation to the Apple registered design, I would be surprised if it included an Etch-A-Sketch. I also remind myself that while the exercise is a visual one, judgments have to be written and reasons necessarily expressed in words. However I must bear in mind that it is the overall impression which counts and not a verbalised list of features, see paragraph 46 of the judgment of Arnold J at first instance in Dyson v Vax [2010] FSR 39 and his reference there to the observations of Mann J in Rolawn Ltd v Turfmech Machinery Ltd [2008] EWHC 989 (Pat); [2008] RPC 27 (paragraph 123, 125 and 126). As Mann J said, " one of the problems with words is that it is hard to use them in this sphere in a way which avoids generalization. But what matters is visual appearance, and that is not really about generalities."

Fakhredin, F., & Huisman, J. (2013) Analyzing End of Life LCD TV WEEE Flows in Europe. Paper presented at the EcoDesign 2013, Jeju Island, South Korea Application processors are the brains in smartphones, enabling a range of multimedia features like video and websurfing. That's why you'll often see pieces of electronic equipment described as "solid-state." Electronic circuits and circuit boards

Finally it bears recording that it was common ground before me that copying is irrelevant to the issue of infringement of a Community registered design. Samsung submitted and Apple did not disagree that considering whether a product was produced by copying an article made to the registered design was irrelevant. i)(d) Overall significance of "a rectangular, biaxially symmetrical slab with four evenly, slightly rounded corners"• The rectangular display screen is totally banal and determined solely by function. Apart from that there are some other design constraints applicable to this feature but they do not account for the identity between the Samsung tablets and the Apple design. These devices do not need to have biaxial symmetry nor be strictly rectangular. Nevertheless the significance of this identity is reduced by the fact that there are other designs in the design corpus which are very similar too. It is also in the extraordinary position of being run by a board of directors of whom more than half are being sued by Olympus for mismanagement. What’s that, you ask? Near Field Communication essentially lets you replace your credit cards with your phone: Wave an NFC-enabled phone near the credit card reader in a store (or taxi cab), and the money is deducted from your account.

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Gu, B. (2011) ‘Mineral Export Restraints and Sustainable Development—Are Rare Earths Testing the WTO’s Loopholes?’, Journal of International Economic Law, 14 (4): 765–805. doi: 10.1093/jiel/jgr034 Seaman, J. (2010) ‘Rare Earths and Clean Energy: Analyzing China’s Upper Hand’, IFRI, Gouvernance européenne et géopolitique de l’énergie. New input methods will be the dominant trend of 2012. Tablet computers such as the iPad might seem like a nice alternative to desktop and laptop computers, but I believe they’re more than that: They’re replacements. Just as the command line (remember that?) gave way to graphical user interfaces, so the mouse will be superseded by touchscreens. Humphries, M. (2012) ‘Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain’, Congressional Research Service. Taking into account the similarities and differences, appropriately weighted, the court can decide whether the alleged infringement produces a different overall impression on the informed user from that produced by the registered design.