Apple v. Samsung Verdict: Could Bill Gates Have Patented The iPhone in 1995?

Re:Apple v. Samsung Verdict: Could Bill Gates Have Patented ... by tensor on Monday August 27, 2012 @06:17PM (#4441208)

I think Apple's patent is actually multitouch on a resistive touch screen. They do not have a patent on implementing gestures by measuring the speed and distance of multiple touch input points.

The later is what has plenty of prior art and the former is exceedingly trivial and really should not be patentable.

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Re:Apple v. Samsung Verdict: Could Bill Gates Have Patented ... by jussij on Monday August 27, 2012 @09:00PM (#4441634)

I think the problem in this case is the jury just decided to ignored prior art.

Quoting from this link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500358-37/exclusive-appl...

> "He had experience. He owned patents himself...so he took us through his experience. After that it was easier. After we debated that first patent -- what was prior art --because we had a hard time believing there was no prior art." "In fact we skipped that one," Ilagan continued, "so we could go on faster. It was bogging us down."

I doubt that in the appeal Apple will be so lucky.

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