Star Apple to Nokia: We'll Defend the Case Vigorously
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Oct 2009 23:20 UTC
Law and Order As most of you will know, Nokia slapped Apple with a patent lawsuit last week. Nokia claims that Apple's iPhone infringes upon 10 patents related to GSM, UMTS, and WiFi connectivity. In its SEC 10-K annual report filing, Apple made its first cautious response to Nokia's claims.
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RE[2]: Not about BS patents
by SReilly on Thu 29th Oct 2009 08:34 UTC in reply to "RE: Not about BS patents"
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Apple patented specific hand gestures to use multitouch... something very reasonable in my opinion as it relates to very specific ways of interacting with a device.

I like to agree with you but I'm afraid that the following...

A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items.

...taken from [link]http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p... || this patent[/link] does not bode well of your assertion.

Frankly, I'm all in favour of hardware patents but in this case I'll reserve judgement until I have the full story. If Nokia are talking about purely interoperability patents then I'll be siding with Apple, loathed as I am to do any such thing.

Apple was shouting about how they patented the crap out of the iPhone. I guess what goes around comes around.

Edit: Bloody OSNews none standard link! ;-p

Edited 2009-10-29 08:50 UTC

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