It shared some technology, but did not allow Chrysler to piggy-back on its basic designs.
Samsung argued that Apple could not claim the rights for all rectangles with rounded corners or other basic geometric designs used for phones and tablets.
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"The basic shapes and designs are the same, " Grossman said.
To compete both on cost and marketing, big car firms have had to squeeze a variety of new models onto ever fewer basic chassis and engine designs.
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Influenced by indigenous craft, the embroidery of Venetian courtiers who ruled the country beginning in 1489, and ancient Greek and Byzantine geometric patterns, Lefkara lace is made by hand in designs combining four basic elements: the hemstitch, cut work, satin stitch fillings and needlepoint edgings.
After all, anyone who travels internationally knows that there are dozens of plug designs that accomplish the same basic function: delivery of electricity to a power cord.
Those possibilities include CubeSats which aren't cubes: the basic modules can be stacked to produce double or triple decker designs.
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Nokia announced an alliance with Texas Instruments to create the blueprints and basic chipsets for the future phones, saying the details of the designs would be available to any and all interested handset makers.
However, the existence of two different engine designs increases the likelihood of something going wrong either with the basic design or with maintenance procedures because additional complexity is introduced into the fleet.
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For unlike basic space systems engineering, space architecture must inherently incorporate sociology, psychology, civilization, culture and aesthetics in its designs.
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