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This Apple expert purports to rebut the SmartSkin as prior art: it notes the "touch-sensitive display" thing plus claims that SmartSkin might not use an "event

• JoelSutherland 14y ago
  Awesome find. It's a shame that several of the relevant pages are not included in the document. I assume for trade secret reasons? Either way, the ONLY two Apple refutations are: 1. The display is not integrated in the device 2. The video does not conclusively prove the manner in which the software was programmed. i.e. We don't know from the video if it is event based. If this is acceptable refutation of prior art, it seems like there would be a lot of money to be made by exploiting this. Attend every CS conference and patent everything displayed using a particular programming model and display type. I suspect, however, this would not normally be considered acceptable or the patent world would be more messed up than it already is.