Again, many of the patents are very recent, too recent in fact. HTC was already using the technologies in question when the patent was filed.
And the object based gui patent didn't hold water when they tried to sue MS in the 90's, why should it now?
As far as anything patent wise dealing with touchscreen, that existed before Apple patented it as well. Most of these are a case of a company filing applications on things they did not develop because they found out no one else had. Where in the spirit or intent of the patent law is this right?
I am all for reasonable and justifiable patents, these are not that. The reason many of these did not get denied is because there is an objection process, and if no one is looking when it goes up for publication there is no objection. Personally I feel the applicant should have to provide rock solid proof of the uniqueness of whatever is being patented and it is not something already in existence.
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