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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:who owns the uspo? by Tancred · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We (U.S. citizens) do, and we should be telling our congresscritters that this has to stop.

  2. Re:who owns the uspo? by BlueStrat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You've wasted time in your life that you'll never get back... "Hopefully soon to be" is not "is"... try speaking to the current congressperson...

    You mean continue talking to the guys that routinely ignore their constituents, lie to us in the face of obvious factual contradictions, and only listen to those throwing hookers, bags of cash, and coke at them?

    That's worked so well so far, hasn't it?

    The definition of insanity comes to mind.

    Toss all incumbents out. Demand term limits. Eliminate career politicians.

    Strat

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  3. Re:who owns the uspo? by I_am_Jack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Toss all incumbents out. Demand term limits. Eliminate career politicians.

    Because of course anyone who replaces them will spring from the forehead of Athena, walk on water then turn it into wine, poop vanilla ice cream, and give us all sweet fuzzy kittens to make us happy when we're sad.

    Why not try to create a better informed electorate? One which understands that software patents deter competition and stifle innovation.

  4. Re:Patent Experts by drkstr1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who the fuck cares what it says? You shoud not be able to patent a god damn UI concept. I don't care how detailed the patent describes it. (I assume you are the same AC farther up, exclaiming how detailed the patent is, like that somehow fucking matters) ...ending rant before my BP spikes...

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  5. Re:Patent Experts by StripedCow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You shoud not be able to patent a god damn UI concept.

    Indeed. Imagine somebody patenting the steering wheel of a car, or the order of the pedals, or the order of the gears. That would be ridiculous. You'd never be able to switch brands of car.

    Now besides USER-interfaces, I think actually that one should not be able to patent interfaces in general. Because any patent in this area will block interoperability and, as a result, innovation.

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