Patents for the sake of it

[ajones]

Warning:
Apple Fanboys reading this post may experience dizziness, tunnel vision, headaches and nausea. Please stop reading now and continue in your idyllic life on planet Appleutonia.

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When is this paten cr@p gonna stop?

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/8,116,807

I haven't read the full patent text I admit, but they usually cover all extreme applications of the core abstract anyway. But for Apple to patent the use of a finger on a touch screen interface to switch on/off airplace mode and for the signal indictor to indicate the action..... ARGH!

[shaithis]

I'm waiting for the "Use of a graphical user interface on an electronic device" patent to surface from them....

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I think Apple was using that one in the 1980s,but in the end what Xerox did caught up with them,eventually.

[directhex]

Remember when there was a rash of "... ON THE INTERNET!!!" patents? Now they're all "... ON A MOBILE!!!"

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Remember when there was a rash of "... ON THE INTERNET!!!" patents? Now they're all "... ON A MOBILE!!!"

You mean "... ON AN IPAD!!!(tm)"

[MaddAussie]

Remember when there was a rash of "... ON THE INTERNET!!!" patents? Now they're all "... ON A MOBILE!!!"

You mean "... ON AN IPAD!!!(tm)"

somehow that got me thinking of this

***Possibly NSFW (hope I picked the clean version!)***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8F3UE9qFsg

[kalniel]

You mean "... ON AN IPAD!!!(tm)"

Nope, or that wouldn't be an issue Samsung et al couldn't care less what Apple do on an ipad, it's the cross-device application that's worrying - so you can't swipe across in that particular manner for that purpose on any device fitting the description.

[Berties123]

Really despise how Apple is going after different companies with stupid lawsuits "It has a screen which you press that is breaking out patent" and "it's a mobile phone, which we invented, and boo hoo they're coping us" Wish the courts would just throw it out, and impose a fine on Apple for wasting our time.

[ajones]

It does make you wonder if there's an apple fanboy in the US patent office... Not that I would ever try to imply that curruption is involved in massive US corporations...

They're just escalating the patent war with Google, and I fear that even Google are somewhat naive in the mobile comms domain.

[kalniel]

It does make you wonder if there's an apple fanboy in the US patent office... Not that I would ever try to imply that curruption is involved in massive US corporations...

I think we can rule that out - absurd patents abound in USPTO, not just from Apple.