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Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling

Posted by timothy on from the always-more-complicated dept.

skade88 writes "Apple has lost its patent on Pinch+Zoom. This is the patent that won Apple their billion dollar verdict against Samsung. GrokLaw has an article, too." The ruling is only preliminary, though, not final.

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  1. Ahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And on the last day of the world. That's too funny.

  2. Re:Groklaw is biased, read FOSS Patents instead by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Funny

    Florian Mueller we know that is you. Go away.

  3. Re:Sick of this by bhagwad · · Score: 2, Funny

    B..but...but what about the BILLIONS of dollars Apple has spent on R&D thinking up pinch to zoom, rubber banding, and rounded corners?

    Billions I say!

  4. Re:The Single Patent? I Thought It Was Six? by CanadianRealist · · Score: 3, Funny

    ('381)
    ('163)
    (the, uh, "rounded corners and color" and "rounded edges on icons" design patents, I'll leave the validity of a patent on those up to the reader)

    Apple is already contacting their lawyers about suing you for the rounded corners on those parentheses. I hope you have a bajillion dollars.

  5. Re:prior art by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's pinch to zoom in 1988.

    You know you've been on the internet too long when you hesitate to click a link with a description like that because you think it is goatsecx.

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  6. Re:Refund? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Funny

    You made recommendations to non-technical friends based on your ability to run X11 apps and SSH easily?

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