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So lets look at some of the infringing patents that the news articles are quoting... 381 patent: "rubber band" effect where a page "bounces" when a user scroll
by lenkite 14y ago
So lets look at some of the infringing patents that the news articles are quoting...
381 patent: "rubber band" effect where a page "bounces" when a user scrolls to the bottom
I personally had written JS bounce-back product picture slide-shows for a shopping cart in 2003/2004 using the horrible browser APIs of that era...wish I had patented that..1 billion..yum. I am quite certain hundreds of people have coded bounce-back animations before even iPhone 1.0.
915 patent: Pinch to Zoom. Isn't this the natural translation of how one drags handlebars in opposite directions in order to zoom-in ? I am quite certain there would be prior art by a lot of CAD software.
163 patent: "Double tap to enlarge/zoom". facepalm. Just about everyone does this on the PC using a mouse. How can one even file a patent for this ?
D '305 patent: "Grid of rounded square icons" -> The joke of the decade. What has every desktop OS being doing since the 90s ???
This is extremely upsetting. Is this what civilization is coming to ? If things continue this way, the working population of the world will be employed as patent lawyers squabbling all the time in courts.
- rayiner 14y agoYou realize there is more to a patent claim than the heading?