macrumors.com - 1/27/2009
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Perhaps adding teeth to Apple's recent comments that they would vigorously defend their intellectual property behind the iPhone, World of Apple notes that the U.S. Patent Office has awarded Apple the patent on their application titled Touch s...
news.worldofapple.com - 1/27/2009
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According to the US Patent Office Apple was
awarded patent number 7,479,949 on January 20, 2009. The...
patent which was filed on April 11, 2008 covers multi-touch and all associated gestures such as pinch, swipe and rotation. The patent is titled: Touch ...
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Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent
appleinsider.com - 1/27/2009
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Apple Awarded iPhone and Multi-Touch Device Patent
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... rip off our IP. And if they do, we will go after anyone who does,” Cook has explained. “I don’t want to talk about any specific company. We are ready to suit up and go against anyone. However, we will not stand for having our IP ripped off.” This of course has led many to believe that we may see a mammoth lawsuit filed over the use of multi-touch input methods. Which in turn may negatively affect competitive innovation, which is never good for the industry.
As MacRumors and WorldofApple both note, Apple CEO is Steve Jobs is listed as the ...
Apple awarded key iPhone multitouch patent
CNET News - Apple —
... Apple has a new weapon when it comes to the iPhone.(Credit: U.S. PTO via MacRumors)
Apple has been awarded a patent that appears to cover much of the iPhone's multitouch user interface.
World of Apple (via MacRumors) spotted the ...
Daily Apple: Better Picture, Better Position, Better Reading, and Better MP3 Player
TheAppleBlog —
... Apple Nets Multi-Touch, iPhone Patents, Better Position From Which to Threaten Palm - A lot has been made of the threatening words spoken by Tim Cook during the Q1 2009 Apple conference call, in which he hinted that Palm’s Pre could be grounds for a suit(s?). Today Apple can further back that up, since they acquired the patent for multi-touch and the iPhone. ...
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Apple’s Multi-Touch Patent: A More Realistic View —
TheAppleBlog
So Apple is finally awarded their multi-touch patent , and the hue and cry from the Apple Bashers is pretty loud. But not only Apple Bashers are worried, Daring Fireball had this to say :
Very broad language - taken at face value, Apple effectively owns the IP rights to multi-touch in ...
Don’t Forget the Multi-Touch Prior Art in Minority Report —
Digital Daily
Is Apple’s so called iPhone patent a hammer with which to brain Palm and smash its new Pre handset into oblivion? Not an easy question to answer. There are lots of issues at play here. After all, the multi-touch realm extends well beyond Apple and Palm . It certainly includes Microsoft ...
Apple sticks it to Palm with multitouch patent —
Phones Review
Well, this should lead to some interesting wrangles concerning future touchscreen mobile phones. The multi-touch battle between Apple and Palm may have just fallen to Apple’s side of things.
Apple accused Palm of ripping off the Apple iPhone IP with the Palm Pre, Palm answered with denial and ...
The iPhone Patent: Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent —
iPhone Hacks
During the first-quarter earnings call, Apple's No. 2 and acting CEO, Tim Cook had warned competitors of legal battle if they try to rip off their intellectual property.Though Cook had not named any company, it was widely speculated that he was referring to Palm's Pre as it had features like...
Apple’s multi-touch patent sets up a legal battle with Palm —
The Apple Core
In what could be a game changer for the smartphone industry, Apple was awarded a patent for its multi-touch interface for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Patent number 7,479,949 was filed on 11 April 2008 and was approved on January 20, 2009 and covers multi-touch and all associated gestures such as ...
Apple Awarded Touchstone iPhone Patent —
Cult of Mac
Apple was granted a key patent covering many aspects of the iPhone interface as well as potentially other “multi-touch” handsets. CEO Steve Jobs was listed among the inventors in a 358-page filing awarded last week.
The patent covers the iPhone, gestures and the ...
Apple's Multi-Touch Patent Approved —
Gearlog
It took a couple of days for this to surface, but it looks like Apple was awarded yet another patent last week--a big one. Awarded on January 20, the company scored patent number 7,479,949, which was applied for on April 18 of last year. The patent covers multi-touch functionality like ...
Apple awarded multi-touch patent- end game for everyone else? —
jkOnTheRun
A sharp reader on jkOnTheRun points us to an article discussing the awarding of the multi-touch patent to Apple just a few days ago. This is the patent they filed last year that covers how they have implemented multi-touch on the iPhone and the new MacBooks using the trackpad. The big question ...
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