Apple Sues Motorola Over Multi-Touch
Late Friday, in a seemingly retaliatory move, Apple filed suit against Motorola over the potential infringement of six Apple patents covering Multi-touch technology. The legal documents uncovered by PatentlyApple reveal that the lawsuit encompasses the following Apple patents:
- Ellipse Fitting for Multi-Touch Surfaces
- Multipoint Touchscreen
- Object-Oriented System Locator System
- Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics
- Method and Apparatus for Displaying and Accessing Control and Status Information in a Computer System
- Support for Custom User-Interaction Elements in a Graphical, Event-Driven Computer System
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(View all)After my first 3 Motorola phones went to the grave, I decided never to own another Motorola.
This is like trying to sue people for using a touch screen. It's the next generation of input, get over it, Apple. You can't have a complete monopoly on everything.
So what is your advice for Motorola then? Motorola suing Apple for patent infringement is fine, but Apple countersuing Motorola means "get over it"?
Apple, Inc patent titled: Multipoint Touchscreen: A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed.
This is very lame and ridiculous... Apple has NOT invented multipoint touchscreens... although they have got the patent...
Once again... we have an example of how patents are stupid and useless (at least in US...).
I wonder if I could get the patent for the process of inhaling and exhaling air using biological bags...
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