Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Jan 2009 10:28 UTC
In a possible legal showdown over multitouch patents between Apple and Palm, the Cupertino gadget maker has just looted a decent weapon off the dead body that is the US patent system: a patent on just about all multitouch gestures used in the iPhone and iPod Touch, such as swiping, pinching, and so on. Wielding this weapon, Apple suddenly has a pretty good case against Palm.
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One would think Apple would not want to provoke Palm. It's a company with all most 20 years of PDA and phone related patents that it could probably use to make apples life hell in a counter suit since in all likely hood something in the iphone/ipod touch infringes on one of them
Except the Palm PDA's and phones came after the Apple Newton, from which they (Palm) gleaned much of their interface design and functionality...
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2006-01-05
One would think Apple would not want to provoke Palm. It's a company with all most 20 years of PDA and phone related patents that it could probably use to make apples life hell in a counter suit since in all likely hood something in the iphone/ipod touch infringes on one of them
Edited 2009-01-27 13:01 UTC