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Re:Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News by ktizo on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @07:17AM (#4443060)
I suppose it is a bit like wondering how Boeing got to own using the moon's gravity for orbital maneuvers. - http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Boeing_Patent_Shuts_Down...

I should stop looking for signs of any kind of sanity in the decision making processes of faceless bureaucracies, as it is entirely pointless and only causes me stress.

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Re:Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News by 001sky on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:27AM (#4443287)
Industry sources have told SpaceDaily that the patent is regarded as legal "trite", as basic physics has been rebranded as a "process", and that the patent wouldn't stand up to any significant level of court scrutiny and was only registered at the time as "the patent office was incompetent when it came to space matters".

thanks for posting this. quoted text from the link.

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