Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid

Posted by timothy on Friday December 7, 2012 @01:08PM from the too-soon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple's most famous multitouch software patents are increasingly coming under invalidation pressure. First the rubber-banding patent and now a patent that Apple's own lawyers planned to introduce to a Chicago jury as 'the Jobs patent.' U.S. Patent No. 7,479,949 covers a method for distinguishing vertical and horizontal gestures from diagonal movements based on an initial angle of movement. For example, everything up to a slant of 27 degrees would be considered vertical or horizontal, and everything else diagonal. The patent office now seems to think that Apple didn't invent the concept of 'heuristics' after all."

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Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? by kelemvor4 · 2012-12-07 16:14 · Score: 1, Flamebait

That you have to go picking at him like this? Really, this is the new classy Slashdot? Picking on Steve Jobs? Really?
Yeah, LEAVE BRITNEY SPEARS ALONE! err.. make that steve jobs. LEAVE STEVE JOBS ALONE!