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micromack · March 3rd, 2010, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by nx1977

Lifted from Anonymous Coward's comment at Apple turns the flamethrower on Android ? El Reg Forums

Patent #7,362,331 is the motion physics thing you see in every game. (They are trying to patent damped harmonic motion in interfaces).
Patent #7,479,949 (Controlling by touch gestures) See palm and every prior touch device, they didn't invent any new gestures or otherwise here.
Patent #7,657,849: broad / obvious (unlocking by gesture). If they didn't invent gestures, then performing [action] by gesture is not special and Nokia had unlock prior to them.
Patent #7,469,381: Scrolling with underdamped harmonic motion, see all games consoles for examples of stuff scrolling in with underdamped harmonic motion.
Patent #6,424,354: , F*** off they did not invent that in 2002, it is the listener model of every clique C++ book.
Patent #7,383,453: Power saving by reducing voltage to command process section of processor. Not the inventor.

Unfortunately you don't have to be the inventor, just the first to patent it. I like everyone else, hope Apple implodes over this, but that's a fact. They should never have been granted the patents to begin with in my book, so we have our lovely US patent department to thank for this mess.