> The idea that a keyboard used with a finger is even Patentable???? ... This patent isn't for that. > It is so frustrating knowing the Prior work of Microsof

> The idea that a keyboard used with a finger is even Patentable???? ... This patent isn't for that. > It is so frustrating knowing the Prior work of Microsoft Surface before the iPhone with multi-touch and pinch to zoom. I assume any work published prior to the priority date of the patent (could be as early as April 2007 based on the filing date) would have been presented by those who requested the re-examination. > ... The very idea that this was something invalid in September and now passed through smells of some outside pressure. This patent has never been decided invalid. The First Office Action (which suggested invalidity) is the very first stage of invalidation and is made before there is any defence of the patent and frequently claims suggested invalid there are later decided to be valid. I don't think that the stage that has just determined the patent is valid would have been the final stage of invalidation (despite being called final). Note also that as I read the claims [IANALATISNLA] if your touchscreen device naively translates single or multiple touches without using heuristics based on the initial movement to decide whether it is scrolling/rotating/something else then this patent would not affect you.