“Both sides of the smartphone wars agree that the 25 patents granted Apple on Tuesday contain some powerful legal weapons,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“One patent in particular — No. 8,223,134: ‘Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents’ — stands out,” P.E.D. reports. “It encompasses the user interfaces Apple designed for blogging, e-mail, telephone, camera, video player, calendar, browser, widgets, search, notes, maps and most importantly, a multi-touch interface.”
P.E.D. reports, “‘Granted just today, the latest addition to the Cupertino-based tech giant’s stable of intellectual property could be the mother of all smartphone software patents,’ writes Phandroid‘s Kevin Krause. ‘The effects could be swift and lethal.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]