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You have to be kidding me.. Apple patents screen rotation...

I truly get tired of Apple patenting EVERYTHING! Can't you only patent something you came up with? Because I'm pretty there were full keyboard phones with screen rotation before the iPhone existed.
 
Demache said:
Next, they are going to win a patent for a device having a screen.
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Actually they already pretty much tried that... it was something like... a slate type device with a touch type screen... I think they actually got it to...(even though phones like the LG chocolate got the description but were out years before
 
Because people think that more patents = more innovation = more jobs. So the patent office is pushed to approve more and more patents every year... and these patent applications become so vague and general....and get revised so many times, there is no way they should be approved. But they are and then the only way to get them thrown out is via the courts.

Its a mess. Software patents need to be tossed out altogether.
 
It's always been like this around the world. Power Plus Fame equals Peevishness. Fearing that others will either have what you have or more.

I'm sure they have a plan for doing what they do. Just hope it doesn't backfire on them. <(&#65507;&#65078;&#65507;)> []~(&#65507;&#9661;&#65507;)~* (&#65507;&#65103;&#65507;) (&#65507;&#711;&#65507;)

Note: I've moved this thread to The Lounge for more comments and a good laugh for the day.
 
I have to agree... These patent lawsuits and "patents" are getting old. I think there should be some more risk for companies doing this. If you try to patent something thatvspmeone else (or everyone else) is already doing, you might lose, and in turn lose one of your legitimate patents.
Plus, ios is Cisco, and guess who was working on iPhone before Apple? Cisco.

It's very frustrating, I don't like to think about it.
 
Sony had a rotating cube on their Palm Clie home screen years ago. You could use that or change to traditional. UX-50 has it.
 
I'm not a patent attorney, but I've always thought/read that the law was pretty clear. You can't enforce a patent if someone can demonstrate "prior art" - that is, use of the patented method/item before the patent was applied for.

So, while I understand that the patent office grants these things willy-nilly, I don't really understand why the courts are doing things like granting injunctions against the Galaxy Nexus or other devices for patents that are clearly invalidated by prior art.

That said, the site doesn't understand how patents work as the title is massively mis-labeled. Please read the following:

Apple's Patent Claim 1 reads as follows: A device, comprising: a touch screen display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the programs including instructions for: detecting a movement of an object on the touch screen display; scrolling a list of items displayed on the touch screen display in a first direction in response to detecting the movement; displaying an area beyond a terminus of the list if the terminus of the list is reached while scrolling the list in the first direction while the object is still detected on the touch screen display; and scrolling the list in a second direction opposite the first direction until the area beyond the terminus of the list is no longer displayed, in response to detecting that the object is no longer on the touch screen display.

Patents are extremely specific. You can't enforce just one sentence in a patent. What that patent is actually doing is patenting the "bounce-back" effect in iOS. It's not patenting scrolling lists.

I don't have the attention span right now to figure out the resizing patent; maybe I'll give it a shot later. There are a lot of statements in it, though, so it's very likely that it relates to a specific method of resizing.
 
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