Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent

An anonymous reader writes "After the rubber-banding, 'Steve Jobs' heuristics and pinch-to-zoom patents, another Apple patent in use against Samsung comes under pressure. An anonymous filer, most likely Samsung, has filed a reexamination request against Apple's RE41,922 patent on a 'method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display.' It's not among the patents a California jury evaluated this summer, but one of four patents an ITC judge preliminarily found Samsung to infringe. The reexamination request features five new pieces of prior art (three U.S. patents from the early 1990s and two Japanese patents), all of which dealt with translucent images. The patent office will decide next year whether to grant or deny the request for reexamination. Expect more such petitions targeting Apple patents."

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Re:there is a patent on translucent images?

[jkrise]

it's a "method and apparatus", not just the mere concept of translucent images.

YOU are the dickwad and ignoramus. Atleast the parent had the courage to log in and post.

The method and apparatus for implementing translucent images, and many more advanced image processing techniques, have existed long before this patent was applied for. Read this post for reference.

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