Guest isaki Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 http://bits.blogs.ny...-the-page-turn/ 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dunharvestskreech Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 apple is gonna rule the world soon omg i cant waiiiiit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest isaki Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dunharvestskreech Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 nah im kidding but srsly doe they are going to takeover eventually it's inevitable !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bitroast Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 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!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Judging by current market trends, you probably won't have to worry about apple, like at all, in a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotosa Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 They legally own the rectangle too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika Technika Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Ahhahahahahhahha Apple :)))))))) On what drugs they are? Sent from randomblame ROM: JellyTime(JellyBean 4.1.2) on Desire HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Got to love a patent system that lets them do it. Don't hate the playa, hate the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YO303 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 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: "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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 The US patent office is fucked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 this is nothing, lol. Gene patents are the real shit in the bed at the moment (IMO): http://www.nature.co...-debate-1.11044 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Im going to patent breathing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 There are definitely dumber patents. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 in 5 years apple will own the patent on breathing iLung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 what a bunch of twats, hopefully the stock is really over valued and they get creamed in the next couple of quarters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plarkreluke Banloboh Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Thankfully Metasonix patented the iCunt before Apple could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 This is the true innovation and patent-worthy work. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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