Developer Trevor Davis , who studied architecture at MIT, saw the Graves billboard in Miami and signed him up to design the Impala on the outer edge of Manhattan's tony Upper East Side neighborhood.

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The front facing speakers on XBR 4K LED TVs extend Sony's new design concept to match the exterior aesthetic of some of the other 2013 models for the home with a striking, angular, faceted outer cabinet - incorporating the Sense of Quartz design concept.

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More broadly, the fact that any company can demand protection for the basic shape of a device, years before it had invented the actual device or technology, should not entitle that company to claim that it had patented the design for a smartphone any more than Richard Branson can patent business class travel in outer space.

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