Meizu M8 at the Patent Office

Err0r

On the 16th of this month, patent information of the Meizu M8 was made publicly available by SIPO (State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C). The images contained on SIPO's page seem to be of one of the earlier M8 prototypes.

Apart from the patent page showing that the miniOne M8 patent was submitted on the 7th of February 2007, not other information is available.

More Images (SIPO)

Thanks russarch!

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Russarch

Your welcome ErrOr...

if u look at the following page, you will see the patent is dated "2008.01.16"

Patent Link

regards

DusL

I don't think these patents still count. It really wouldn't make any sense at all.

Back in december they said the buttons were still under patenting....-> almost an entire year to patent something? Even the Chinese can't be that slow.

The drawings are devoid of colour, but I still think the "latest" renders don't really look like these drawings anymore. So......

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nice2know_u

Yeah these are patents for the earlier prototype of the M8 (a year old). And in December they started to patenting the new design, which we haven't seen yet...

nice2know_u

russarch, you can also see: [The application] 2007.02.07
They just made it public on the 16th I think.

DusL

Rofl still really really weard. The fact they released it must mean "patent accepted" right? Why the hell change it.....

Or if they were planning to change it, why the hell patent the early model?

I'll never understand Meizu's reasoning....

Err0r

I'm also pretty confused and would like to hear ideas / thoughts from more people.

nice2know_u

They weren't planning to change it a year ago because they thought they can finish it earlier...that's why. They must have forgot to cancel this patent...or I don't know how that works.

Russarch

yeah i noticed that too - guess we'll have to wait for CeBIT, to see the final design.

regards

nice2know_u

Yeah...only 42 days left :P