Nah. They'll just do what Microsoft did with their patent lawsuits, and collect $5 or $10 per Android device sold.

Fail in Human Form: bingethinker: Nah. They'll just do what Microsoft did with their patent lawsuits, and collect $5 or $10 per Android device sold.

I think that depends on whether or not Tim Cook shares Steve Jobs' view. Jobs wanted android shut down.

It may not be that simple, anyway; we don't know what competing patents Android [now] holds. After all, that's the nature of the software patent battle at this stage. Both parties gather patents, some or all of which may be invalid, and they basically throw them at each other (as it were). The unlucky judge (or rather, his law clerk) gets to then spend months figuring out which if any elements of which if any patents are valid.

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Real invention or fancy phrase meaning debouncing?

host device may, for example, correspond to a computer such as a desktop, laptop, handheld or tablet computer. The host device interprets the touch event and thereafter performs an action based on the touch event

Is that the patented invention or a prologue to the real claims?

I hold a similar patent as multi-touch applies to groins but I don't enforce it.

thismomentinblackhistory: I hold a similar patent as multi-touch applies to groins but I don't enforce it.

Thank goodness. I'd owe you billions.

Is this like patenting the concept of a steering wheel?

Barbigazi: Is this like patenting the concept of a steering wheel?

I would think you could patent a method for detecting and processing multi-touch, but not the concept itself. Because Apple didn't invent it. ...Or the method they use.

So how much did they pay for this farcical patent again?

HeadKase: thismomentinblackhistory: I hold a similar patent as multi-touch applies to groins but I don't enforce it.

Thank goodness. I'd owe you billions.

Nah. Prior art.

Barbigazi: Is this like patenting the concept of a steering wheel?

Last year, IBM tried to patent a 20 minute meeting.

kingoomieiii: Barbigazi: Is this like patenting the concept of a steering wheel?

I would think you could patent a method for detecting and processing multi-touch, but not the concept itself. Because Apple didn't invent it. ...Or the method they use.

So how much did they pay for this farcical patent again?

No US Government agency will want to do anything that hurts Apple and helps the competition. Obama doesn't want to hand any ammunition to the GOP right now. I expect many favorable rulings for Apple between now and the election.

cmunic8r99: HeadKase: thismomentinblackhistory: I hold a similar patent as multi-touch applies to groins but I don't enforce it.

Thank goodness. I'd owe you billions.

Nah. Prior art.

*rimshot*

[wacky morning show music]

XD

gameshowhost: cmunic8r99: HeadKase: thismomentinblackhistory: I hold a similar patent as multi-touch applies to groins but I don't enforce it.

Thank goodness. I'd owe you billions.

Nah. Prior art.

*rimshot*

[wacky morning show music]

XD

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So either Synaptics never patented their ancient multi-touch tech, or Apple bought it off 'em.

Or the USPTO is brainless.

That's not how it works.

Google has a lot of patents now that they bought Motorola, plus their existing portfolio.

Apple sues Google for patent infringement. Google counter-sues Apple for patent infringement. They settle out of court arranging some tit for tat licensing agreements that lets them both continue to do business.

That's how these things work among the big boys. Each has its own possible infringements to pursue against the other.

I plan to patent waving my pinkie in the air. It'll be worth millions.

"host device may, for example, correspond to a computer such as a desktop, laptop, handheld or tablet computer. The host device interprets the touch event and thereafter performs an action based on the touch event"

Didn't the mouse-touchpad on laptops come way before the iPod/iTouchMyself?

Marcus Aurelius: I plan to patent waving my pinkie in the air. It'll be worth millions one hundred billion dollars.

FTFY

cmunic8r99: HeadKase: thismomentinblackhistory: I hold a similar patent as multi-touch applies to groins but I don't enforce it.

Thank goodness. I'd owe you billions.

Nah. Prior art.

You know, evidence or not--you should really wash that sock more often.

redpanda2: tomcatadam: DirkValentine: and try to understand what I do on my android that is like this?

You touch a screen on a device and something happens on a device (same or otherwise). Said device could be anything that is a computer - anything at all.

So on android, the fact that it has touch controls in any way, shape or form.

Yeah... except apple didn't invent that

So? They didn't invent computers GUIs or MP3 players either. Apple seems to be a master at patent trolling.

unicron702: PainInTheASP: cmunic8r99: HeadKase: thismomentinblackhistory: I hold a similar patent as multi-touch applies to groins but I don't enforce it.

Thank goodness. I'd owe you billions.

Nah. Prior art.

You know, evidence or not--you should really wash that sock more often.

Why? If guys get money for sperm that sock is going to send some kids to college.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Broom: mrshowrules: No US Government agency will want to do anything that hurts Apple and helps the competition. Obama doesn't want to hand any ammunition to the GOP right now. I expect many favorable rulings for Apple between now and the election.

You are aware that the Judiciary and Executive branches of the US government are separate, right? Ah, nevermind. That sentence contained big words. Sorry.

You are aware that the US Patent office (see TFA) reports to the Department of Commerce, who in turn reports to the POTUS, has nothing to do with the Judiciary and that your mother is a whore?