“During his presentation of the iPhone, Steve Jobs mentioned that they have filed for more then 200 patents to protect the inventions they’ve put into this new gadget. Want to know what exactly have they patented? Then read on,” Unwired View reports.
“To find out which of the cool iPhone features has been patented by Apple and are now protected from replication and which ones you can expect to be copied soon by the likes of Nokia, Samsung or Motorola, we’ve combed through the U.S. Patent and Trademark database and checked all relevant Apple’s patents,” Unwired View reports.
“And we came to a conclusion that this time Steve Jobs did his homework and most of the key features that make iPhone an iPhone will not be easily copied by competitors. This applies to Multi touch display, the idea to use full screen of the device for User Interface, scrolling, zooming and other finger gestures, soft on screen controls, multifunctionality, proximity, ambient light sensors and many other functions,” Unwired View reports.
“Steve Jobs exclaimed during [the Macworld Expo’s iPhone-dominated] keynote ‘And boy have we patented it!’ it was not an empty boast. The have indeed PATENTED it. And though not all of the claims have received patent protection yet and even less of them may withstand scrutiny in court if Apple decides to enforce them, many of the claims should should stick,” Unwired View reports. “I guess Steve has learned his lessons from Mac and there it would be very difficult for Nokia or Samsung to repeat the Microsoft Windows feat and create an iPhone knock-off without violating at least some of Apple’s IP.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
From Chump to inventor.
yes, because you keep asking for facts, so you’ve got the facts. As published on the net & not in my own words.
Considering you started off by complaining Apple could not & I quote
“I DNRTFA, but at least from the portion cited here, lots of the patents listed aren’t really patentable.”
& “New methods for doing some of these things would be patentable, but in this list, there’s very little that couldn’t be copied using ideas that Apple has not and could not patent.”
You now acknowledge that software is patentable. You also do not argue over the fact that Apple successfully sued M$ the LOOK & FEEL of it’s OS, the precedent that Creative used against Apple because if Apple had indeed copied the code word for word, Creative Technology Ltd would have been whithin their rights to sue for Apple to discontinue the ipod & pay royalties for every ipod sold to date.
You also keep asking for the patent listings & now want even the numbers!
GO LOOK THAT UP YOURSELF!
I reckon you have an ulterior motive that is preventing you from showing your hand by going to patent office and applying for the said applications yourself.
Ps. your argument keeps shrinking just like your beloved port 80! The port to all unsecured content on the WWW.
“You now acknowledge that software is patentable.”
I’ve always said it was. What I also said is that to patent it it had to be new and inobvious. There are few things in the iPhone which haven’t already been seen elsewhere, or are not slight tweaks on existing concepts.
“GO LOOK THAT UP YOURSELF!”
As the patent applications are a matter of public record it should be easy for you to put this discussion to rest by simply doing what I told you.
“You also keep asking for the patent listings & now want even the numbers!”
Do you think when you look them up that the numbers won’t be right there in front of you?
What a bozo. The only reason I ask for those is so we know unambigiously which patents we’re referring to.
Clearly you don’t know how to do it, and you don’t even know what you’d expect to find if you did know.
How pathetic.
In future stay out of discussions about things you know nothing about.
Here is a final post!
Your second paragraph is disproved by the Linux precedent!:-)
I know my limitations, so I have published this nugget that you’ve been begging for.
United States Patent 20070103440
King Code A1
Kong; Yuan; et al. May 10, 2007
Serial No: 268937
Serial Code: 11
Filed: November 8, 2005
U.S Current Clas: 345/166
U.S Class at publication 345/166
International Class: G09G 5/08 20060101 G09G005/08
This is a patent for?
Can you look for this patent and tell us all what it is for?
Who has filed it?
And the name of the product it has been patented for?
Port 80 is now completely closed!
“I know my limitations, so I have published this nugget that you’ve been begging for.”
A Microsoft patent! So you can’t even tell the difference between an Apple patent and a Microsoft one?
You keep saying you’re making your final post, but you keep coming back dumber and dumber.
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