apple now own the page turn

http://bits.blogs.ny...-the-page-turn/

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Of course this isn’t the most seemingly obvious patent Apple has been awarded in recent years. The company has also been granted patents for an icon for music (which is a just a musical note), the glass staircase used in the company’s stores – yes, stairs, that people walk up — and for the packaging of its iPhone.

apple is gonna rule the world soon

omg i cant waiiiiit

nah im kidding but srsly doe

they are going to takeover eventually

it's inevitable

!!

Maybe they'll take the Lucas route and sell all their rights and patents to google or someone for 4 billion dollars, once the company is truly on its way to decline. Think. About. It!!!!

Judging by current market trends, you probably won't have to worry about apple, like at all, in a few years.

They legally own the rectangle too.

Ahhahahahahhahha Apple :))))))))

On what drugs they are?

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Got to love a patent system that lets them do it.

Don't hate the playa, hate the game.

Can't wait for the day where i go to the supermarket and see the genetically modified apples that are shaped like Steve Jobs' head.

Yummy.

  On 11/17/2012 at 4:13 AM, Dan C said:

Got to love a patent system that lets them do it.

 

Don't hate the playa, hate the game.

Exactly.

The real ridiculous part is that some patent bureau actually granted the patent. If patents wouldn't be granted for stuff like this the world would look a lot different.

If it wasn't for Apple, some other company would have filed the patent. That's the way the current game works.

It's a design patent, they're pretty weak. Nonetheless, Apple are cunts for trying to monopolize on an imitation of an age-old physical motion.

Design patents:

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"A design patent is granted to any person who has invented any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. The design patent protects only the appearance of an article, and not its structure or utilitarian features. A design patent has a term of 14 years from the grant and no fees are necessary to maintain a design patent in force."

Arguably, Apple fails on the first sentence. Their design is not new or original. However, since the second sentence says the patent will only protect the appearance, not the structure or utility, Apple's patent doesn't really protect them from other page-swiping software, so long as it is not identical. Knowing Apple, they'll challenge that idea and try to sue other companies for stealing their "innovations." (see some of Apple's other overstepped design patents on things like a music-note icon or a square with rounded edges). It's worth noting from the article that Apple was awarded 38 total design patents just this week. Seems to me that they're trying to litigate their way to profits for some reason. These sorts of patents can only slow down innovation; Apple is using them to gain a legal upper-hand against small companies that may try to innovate on their designs (or just on simple designs in general, as in this case).

The US patent office is fucked up.

this is nothing, lol. Gene patents are the real shit in the bed at the moment (IMO): http://www.nature.co...-debate-1.11044

Im going to patent breathing.

I'm 100% sure there are dumber patents than this... and I actually don't think it's such a dumb patent. If I had made something that everyone else was copying I would want to patent the shit out of it as well.

There are definitely dumber patents.

  On 11/17/2012 at 6:24 PM, Squee said:

If I had made something that everyone else was copying I would want to patent the shit out of it as well.

You wouldn't have "made" a page-swipe (ie invented it), you would have mimicked one. Perhaps the algorithm should be patentable, but not the end result of a page swipe on a screen. If you were the sort of person who thinks you can own the idea of swiping pages, that's nice; I'd think you're a greedy dumbass, and so would most everyone else trying to design e-readers.

And that brings me to my last point before I rollerskate outta here: most software developers are just going to ignore this patent, as well as many other frivolous patents, knowing that the 'owners' of these things can't sue everyone, and would go out of business trying.

I never really understood why an e-reader/ipad needs a page turn animation anyway.

Just gimme the god damn text and stop pretending to be what you ain't.

in 5 years apple will own the patent on breathing

iLung

what a bunch of twats, hopefully the stock is really over valued and they get creamed in the next couple of quarters

Thankfully Metasonix patented the iCunt before Apple could.

This is the true innovation and patent-worthy work.

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Historians consider the first touch screen to be a capacitive touch screen invented by E.A. Johnson at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK, around 1965 - 1967. The inventor published a full description of touch screen technology for air traffic control in an article published in 1968.

 

In 1971, a "touch sensor" was developed by Doctor Sam Hurst (founder of Elographics) while he was an instructor at the University of Kentucky. This sensor called the "Elograph" was patented by The University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The "Elograph" was not transparent like modern touch screens, however, it was a significant milestone in touch screen technology. The Elograph was selected by Industrial Research as one of the 100 Most Significant New Technical Products of the Year 1973.

 

In 1977, Siemens Corporation financed an effort by Elographics to produce the first curved glass touch sensor interface, which became the first device to have the name "touch screen" attached to it.