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    Apple's Legal Showdown Over Multitouch Begins, With Palm Nowhere To Be Seen
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    04/08/09

    In reply to Apple's Legal Showdown Over Multitouch Begins, With Palm Nowhere To Be Seen
    I'm hoping MS can prove prior use with Surface... Multitouch is an inevitable development and it would badly stifle innovation to control who can or can't use it (or charge a licensing fee for it unless they use the EXACT same method.)
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    04/08/09

    In reply to Apple's Legal Showdown Over Multitouch Begins, With Palm Nowhere To Be Seen
    I hope Apple loses, they deserve it after what they did to Xerox.
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    04/08/09

    @BigRocket: You do realize that the IP Apple used from Xerox was, in turn, used by Microsoft, its largest beneficiary by far?
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    04/08/09

    In reply to Apple's Legal Showdown Over Multitouch Begins, With Palm Nowhere To Be Seen
    It's like inventing the wheel then trying to put a patent on it.
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    04/08/09

    @Brian Owens: The wheel was invented in the late 17th century, before current patent law protections would have been in effect.
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    04/08/09

    In reply to Apple's Legal Showdown Over Multitouch Begins, With Palm Nowhere To Be Seen
    I have a feeling that nobody is going to get exclusive rights to multi-touch. Apple tried do this with the mouse and that didn't work, and this is basically the same thing.
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    04/08/09

    @baltwade:


    Agreed. I'm not familiar with the Apple patent, so I don't know how broad it is, but I can't imagine a court agreeing that Apple has the exclusive right to market digital devices with screens that can be touched in more than one place at once. Frankly, I'd be surprised if Apple can patent come of its more obvious gestures (like pinching to reduce the size of an object, or reverse-pinching to increase it).

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    04/08/09

    In reply to Apple's Legal Showdown Over Multitouch Begins, With Palm Nowhere To Be Seen
    How could multi-touch be seen as anything other than a continuation of technology that already existed? I have used the iPhone, and while it is helpful, it is helpful in the same way that a second mouse button is helpful. How can you patent something that, once used, is plainly obvious that it is needed? Oh well, I have never understood patent law, and I suspect I never will. Hopefully everyone will just release their nuclear arsenal of lawyers and destroy the whole system.
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