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    Default [MW] Massive Apple patent win could kill off Android completely

    Source: http://www.macworld.co.uk/apple-busi...newsid=3370881

    Patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/8,223,134


    Apple on Tuesday was granted 25 patents that encompass almost all user interface elements used by modern smartphones. Everything from e-mail, telephone, camera, video player, photos, search, and most importantly multi-touch (the system of using multiple finger gestures on a touch screen display) have all been granted to the Cupertino-based company.
    This wasn't really all that clear to me so I read the patent and now I'm even more confused:

    In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on the touch screen display. The displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting the object on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document, a vertical bar is displayed on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document. The vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion of the electronic document. After a predetermined condition is met, display of the vertical bar is ceased. The vertical bar is displayed for a predetermined time period when the portion of the electronic document is initially displayed.
    Thoughts? It seems like such a broad idea that it shouldn't have been able to be patented
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    This is what happens when you slam Apple... they get furious and force you to use their products.

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    Ameeeeeeeeeeerica fuck yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! Corperate greed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are both business makeing billions but fuck u we want it all!
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    I'm starting up a car company soon actually. Just to warn you, I plan on patenting 4 wheel cars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
    I'm starting up a car company soon actually. Just to warn you, I plan on patenting 4 wheel cars.
    So if I bought a car with a spare wheel & tire then...?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flight View Post
    So if I bought a car with a spare wheel & tire then...?
    Damn seems you have outsmarted Richard, better patent cars with engines and/or a steering wheel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caotom View Post
    Damn seems you have outsmarted Richard, better patent cars with engines and/or a steering wheel.

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    That's strange you guys, I believe I should sue you.

    I patented my idea of anything moving that utilizes electricity.

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    And I already thought about patenting steamengines too - don't get any ideas gentlemen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flight View Post
    So if I bought a car with a spare wheel & tire then...?
    Then I'd have to pull an Apple and patent every possible design. You are not having a one wheeled car.

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    What the hell? Patenting multi-touch? Photos? Videos? A scroll-bar disappearing (Canonical and its Unity won't be impressed) when it isn't used?

    I do hope in hell that if Apple fire at Microsoft and Google, that they both team up and slaughter that joke of a company (far-fetched, but I do hope it would happen).
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    Apple is slowly dying, Andriod now controls more than 52 percent of the phone market. Apple does not like this one bit so in order to get back to where they were they are trying to stop other companies. Hence why they keep suing Samsung and getting phone sales banned until the lawsuits are resolved.

    Doing shit like this will actually get less people coming to them. I've never liked Apple, they are an awful company, I do work fixing laptops and phones and I refuse to service anything that people bring in that is an Apple product.

    Also, with this patent:

    In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on the touch screen display. The displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting the object on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document, a vertical bar is displayed on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document. The vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion of the electronic document. After a predetermined condition is met, display of the vertical bar is ceased. The vertical bar is displayed for a predetermined time period when the portion of the electronic document is initially displayed.
    In order to breach it, EVERYTHING in that patent must be met. I can develop a phone and copy 90 percent of that patent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daniel View Post
    What the hell? Patenting multi-touch? Photos? Videos? A scroll-bar disappearing (Canonical and its Unity won't be impressed) when it isn't used?

    I do hope in hell that if Apple fire at Microsoft and Google, that they both team up and slaughter that joke of a company (far-fetched, but I do hope it would happen).
    I agree with everything here. I'd like to see Apple simply removed from the market.

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    I wish Linux market would be put in place as Apple, and Apple market would be the new Dell of pre-installed Linux computers

    oh man what a world

    I find it pathetic, and I loved the 4 wheel car analogy.. it's similar to how some couple in Oklahoma I think owns the happy birthday song patent.. yet nobody pays them, because.. LOL.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daniel View Post
    I do hope in hell that if Apple fire at Microsoft and Google, that they both team up and slaughter that joke of a company (far-fetched, but I do hope it would happen).
    That, I would love to see.

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    Just so you guys know, google hates microsoft.. with good reason. And it can take out apple and microsoft by itself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by grats View Post
    Just so you guys know, google hates microsoft.. with good reason. And it can take out apple and microsoft by itself.
    They both hate each other, but nonetheless, such an alliance would be really awesome to see. I wonder what Apple would be thinking if they were to get handed such a lawsuit...
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    I wouldn't like to see that at all

    I hate microsoft slightly more than I hate apple.. and I would love to see google take out microsoft. Apple will just fight google so much it'll backfire on them and take themselves out so I have no worry there
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    Quote Originally Posted by grats View Post
    Just so you guys know, google hates microsoft.. with good reason. And it can take out apple and microsoft by itself.
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    Omg, seriously? I hate how thing's are getting lately, It seems like the Governments and Corporations are starting to go way 2 far. The question is when will it slow down?

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    You'll find that most patents will be invalidated, most likely.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Ducksworthy View Post
    Omg, seriously? I hate how thing's are getting lately, It seems like the Governments and Corporations are starting to go way 2 far. The question is when will it slow down?
    When breathing gets patented....

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    Apple = worst patent troll.

    The more I learn about Apple, the more I hate them.

    They recently submited a patent for auto saving.
    AUTO SAVING. It's been out for f**king 20 years, and they are trying to patent it.

    They didn't even think about it, someone else did long ago, everyone used it, and now they try to steal that idea and make it theirs.
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