The Dock patent is specifically on the dynamic resizing and repositioning of icons when moused over. A plain collection of icons won't infringe this patent.
The second patent is a design patent, which means you'd have to have a menu exactly like that to infringe.
Funnily enough, one of the icons in the figures in the first patent is for Internet Explorer. I think I also spied one for Word.
I actually never understood the usability behind growing/shrinking the Dock icons. Good icons have enough of a profile to be distinguishable when they're small.
...that they've been using from 2005. Oh, they also really have to change their dock!...
...that they've been using from 2011.
The menu patent is a design patent, so you'd have to have a translucent menubar and menus to infringe. The Dock patent is, I believe, strictly for magnification and behavior, so icons arranged in a row do not infringe.
I am not a patent lawyer, but the second patent appears to be for an interface where windows can situationally be rendered translucent, not for the general idea of pull-down menus.
Wow, I was surprised to see that Apple has patents on those, especially the one on pull-down menus. Wasn't pull-down menus there in some old Xerox computer?
The second patent is a design patent, which means you'd have to have a menu exactly like that to infringe.
Funnily enough, one of the icons in the figures in the first patent is for Internet Explorer. I think I also spied one for Word.