The look-and-feel lawsuit happened 7 years before the iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

The look-and-feel lawsuit happened 7 years before the iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros...) Apple tried to ban other companies from using GUI, claiming ownership of the concept. Of course, they themselves got the idea from Xerox, which got the idea from SRI/Englebart, which got the idea from Sketchpad (Ian Sutherland), which got the idea from Memex/Vannevar Bush all the way back from 1945. There's a continuous lineage of which Apple was a part of and clearly pushed the field further from military and corporate R&D to consumer, but did they deserve to own a monopoly on it?