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Apple Patents Page Turn Animation
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.
It's no use. I have a patent on a methodology whereby old technologies are patented as new by simply changing the names of the components and/or adding the letter 'i' to the front of it. Pay up, sweet cheeks.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Oh, good. Another patent article. This one even cheerfully tells us how to think, calling us to see the patent system as broken because of one particular patent. The sensationalism really adds something to Slashdot... It's not like I come here for actual news or anything.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Sorry man, you've been hating on apple for more than a couple months... Sometimes it's really easy to prove a negative ha ha ha http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2474744&cid=37705796
let's have a conversation! let me know what you think.
It seems to me, looking at the patent application, many others have patented their way of animating a page turn. Why is everyone picking on Apple for theirs? Why is Slashdot even bothering to publish such an article, obviously to troll people.
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