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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. Groklaw is biased, read FOSS Patents instead by jmcbain · · Score: -1, Troll

    I find Groklaw to be filled with amateur web sleuths who have nothing better to do with their time than to shake their angry fists at successful corporations. A better source of information on patent law is FOSS Patents.

    1. Re:Groklaw is biased, read FOSS Patents instead by jmcbain · · Score: -1, Troll

      LOL. I work as a software engineer and have 12 patent applications submitted in my career. Each one of these represents at least 6 months' worth of research and development, so I know what the value of a patent is. How many patents do you have? 0? You probably have NOTHING because you haven't done a day's worth of original work in your life. You live off doing the same old database, the same old website, the same old crap and have nothing to contribute to society. You say "keep other corporations from being successful." You mean to "keep other corporations from copying and/or making the same old database, website, or other crap." I pity you, your children, and your children's children.