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Apple Patents Page Turn Animation

Posted by Soulskill on from the or-as-it's-now-called-the-iTurn dept.

An anonymous reader sends this quote from the NY Times Bits blog: "If you want to know just how broken the patent system is, just look at patent D670,713, filed by Apple and approved this week by the United States Patent Office. This design patent, titled, 'Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface,' gives Apple the exclusive rights to the page turn in an e-reader application. ... Apple argued that its patented page turn was unique in that it had a special type of animation other page-turn applications had been unable to create." The article doesn't really make it clear, but this is for the UI design of showing a page being turned, not the actual function of moving from one page to another. That said, the patent itself cites similar animations in Flash from 2004.

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  1. Re:The facepalm is strong with this one. by NettiWelho · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are an insufficient number of Picards to adequately supply the amount of facepalm this requires and deserves.

    The Reinforcements Have Arrived

  2. Re:The facepalm is strong with this one. by craigminah · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read on the Internets Apple just patented the process of sueing some entity; from henceforth, anyone caught violating that patent will ironically be sued.

  3. Re:The facepalm is strong with this one. by Scarletdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    Picard is insufficient to express the retardedness of this patent. Must go even higher to epic proportions in the facepalm department.

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  4. The 80's called by RenHoek · · Score: 1, Funny

    All your page curls be mine!

  5. Re:The facepalm is strong with this one. by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's like saying "I hate penetrative sex. We live in the age of the Petri dish. Let everyone ejaculate into a beaker!"

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  6. Re:The facepalm is strong with this one. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Page turn animation is to an e-reader what 'typewriter noise' is to a keyboard.

    /. is full of Model-M enthusiasts; are you sure that's the analogy you wanna go with?