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news.worldofapple.com - 1/27/2009

Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent

— news.worldofapple.com — According to the US Patent Office Apple was awarded patent number 7,479,949 on January 20, 2009. The patent which was filed on April 11, 2008 covers multi-touch and all associated gestures such as pinch, swipe and rotation. The patent is titled: Touch ... (more) Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent

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patft.uspto.gov - 1/27/2009

United States Patent: 7479949

— patft.uspto.gov — Apple’s multi-touch patent, which is currently at the forefront of hysterical (and unfounded) implications that Apple has “threatened” to sue Palm to the ground. They haven’t done any such thing. They patented the heuristics to make sense ... (more) United States Patent: 7479949

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macnn.com - 1/22/2009

United States Patent Application: 0090022329

— macnn.com — PVF -- APPLE INC.;c/o PARK, VAUGHAN & FLEMING LLP 2820 FIFTH STREET DAVIS CA 95618-7759 US (more) United States Patent Application: 0090022329

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Apple conquista patentes do iPhone e Multi-Touch
MacMagazine — A Apple acaba de conquistar oficialmente a posse de uma patente que cobre seu aparelho touchscreen, incluindo métodos e interface gráfica do usuário para a determinação de comandos através de aplicação heurística. Bastante explorada — evidentemente — no iPhone, a tecnologia Multi-Touch poderá trazer problemas — caso seja do interesse da Apple — para companhias como a Palm e a Microsoft, que também a utilizam em aparelhos como o recém-anunciado Pre e a Surface, respectivamente. De acordo com o World of Apple, a patente de número 7.479.949 foi concedida em 20 de janeiro de 2009, tendo sido solicitada em 11 de abril de 2008. A documentação cobre a superfície sensível a múltiplos toques e ...

Apple awarded key "multi-touch" patent covering the iPhone
AppleInsider — ... Published: 09:00 PM EST Apple last week was awarded a monstrous 358-page patent covering the touch screen, graphical user interface, and methods that combine to define the iPhone user experience. Dating back to September of 2007 and granted last Tuesday, U.S. Patent No. 7479949  lists many inventors; notably, Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs, iPhone software director Scott Forstall, and FingerWorks co-founder Wayne Westerman.  (FingerWorks was responsible for gadgets with an opaque surface that could respond to gesture controls before being acquired by Apple to ...

Dissecting Apple's "Multitouch" Patent: Can It Stop Palm? [Patent Wars]
Gizmodo — ... The patent we're referring to is #7,479,949, awarded on January 20 of this year. It has a list of 20 claims but as Prof. Wagner showed us, out of the 20, 17 are "dependent," which means they drill down more specifically into features of the invention/interface/device described in their parent claim. In our quick Patent Law 101 with Professor Wagner, we learned that to legally infringe upon a patent, you need to violate an entire independent claim, which means, if you rip off one of its dependents, you're OK, you just can't rip off all of them all together. ...