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Is there an explanation somewhere of how the gallery in 2.x infringed, but the gallery in 3.x does not? It's not immediately clear to me how the two are signifi

• jwildeboer 15y ago
  Yes, in the verdict. The patent is on two things that are relevant here. 1: When you slide through pictures with your finger, and you move one picture to the right, is the empty space on the left filled with parts of the new picture? If yes, you infringe! 2. If you slide a picture a bit and remove your finger, does the picture pop back to the centre? If yes, you infringe! Is this a ridiculous patent? Yes. But hey, that's the system. Android 3.0 on tablets does not have this functionality as they run on a big screen with a different approach, hence Android 3.0 and thus also the Galaxy Tab that runs with 3.0 is not infringing. As this was the only surviving point of Apple (all design stuff, copyright, copycat, patent claims have been thrown out) it needs a trivial fix from Samsung - that they already promised to deliver - and Samsung is the big winner here. Today the whole circus moves to germany, Düsseldorf court. Should be fun!
  • antihero 15y ago
    Doesn't anything that use Gallery3D thus infringe? (every AOSP based Android phone)