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Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents

Posted by Soulskill on from the history-began-in-2007 dept.

walterbyrd writes "Apple yesterday was granted Patent no. 8,223,134 for 'Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents.' According to the patent's description, the technology relies upon a touch-screen display and includes both the function for displaying lists and documents, and how they look on a mobile product."

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  1. Re:I don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't quite see the business model of filing an idiotically general patent, waiting around, suing someone for using it, spending millions defending it in court, and getting the patent thrown out and paying the competitor's legal fees.

    By suing someone you slow down their ability to bring competing products to the market.