Today Patently Apple reports Apple has been granted another major multi-touch patent relating to e-docs.
Remember the first time you saw an iPhone television ad, showing the iPhone in action? The touch gestures seemed effortless, magical, like nothing you’d ever seen. Skeptics insisted the TV ads couldn’t be real, prompting comparison videos after the iPhone’s release.
Four years later, multi-touch is taken for granted. It’s become “obvious” to other vendors how handhelds should work, so multi-touch is seemingly used on every new device you’ll see at CES this week.
Apple thinks this competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal theirs, and keeps stockpiling the ammunition it needs to defend its innovations. In December, Apple received a patent for one of the primary elements of multi-touch, which we expected would help in its patent suit against HTC.
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Apple awarded patent for multi-touch gestures on electronic documents originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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