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This is a patent on their specific page turn design. It doesn't mean they have a patent on all page turns. Apple has to patent everything, or else they will get taken to court by someone else who does,...
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i can't help but laugh at how sad the usa is ...no really you call this innovative? YOU call this original thought that someone really had to sit and think hard at? Not that there isnt tons a prior art...
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It doesn't really matter since design patents are just for the look and feel not the utilitarian aspect of anything. If it looks like it than it can be considered to be substantially similar. This...
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A design patent is more broad than a patent, a patent is about one implementation a design patent is anything that looks and feels "substantially similar" so you are probably wrong on your statement.
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Normally, I'd say I might agree with you. The thing is, is Google Play using a simulating page turn. I've been using it the past say, two months. (I'd have been using it longer, but I was previously...
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You missed the other AC's point. The exact implementation Apple decide to use will be covered by copyright, that is no-one can write the same characters in the same sequence without infringing. This is...
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Again Wally I think your name is very apt. How on earth can you defend apple patenting an animation of something people have been doing for centuries, and that software has been doing for decades.
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Logic is backwards. 'Apple has to patent everything because then they can take someone else to court' FTFY
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I hope you'll actually take a moment to play with this little Flash video. You will have to flip past the simulated hard cover, but I encourage you to soldier on!...
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The Nook application on Android does this by default whenever you swipe your finger to turn a page. And has since it was originally released.
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Its all part of a cunning plan to get revenge on all those people who copied the idea of a graphic user interface. They can't patent the GUI as they stole it from Xerox PARC, but so they are using...
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Does the flash version include the page staying where your finger is in a touch screen?
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Here I am just wanting to be able to put a Patent on Urination or Defecation.
View ArticleRe: Re: Re: Re: Simulated page turning is one of the stupidest ideas ever
"It doesn't really matter since design patents are just for the look and feel not the utilitarian aspect of anything." Yet you forget that said look and feel has to be programmed uniquely, and that...
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"Anything that has a page turning now is infringing Apple's patent, that is ridiculous." All they have to do in court is rebuttal that the code they used was different. Samsung should have done this,...
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Xerox PARC was different. The GUI didn't limit the mouse cursor to the side of the screen. Steve Jobs created the code that put in the perimeter of limitations on the mouse cursor, which is what...
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I'm doing jerk-offs. On the net! Think of the money I can extort from Mike every time OOTB or AJ post.
View ArticleA fun way to test if they are even reading the applications:
Submit the following 'patent': One page of complete and utter meaningless management style gibberish, and then on the second page the fun comes up... '...and by signing off on this application the...
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"All they have to do in court is rebuttal " Yeah, just waste millions on lawyers - that will increase your bottom line immensely.
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No he doesn't, and you are wrong because there is no such thing as a nice implementation of simulated page turning. The concept is fundamentally misguided.
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Truly the Evil Empire strikes again after having turned the page on yet another unecessary patent
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Yes, it does. It turns as you grab a page corner, tracking the fold deformation. Try it on your computer if your tablet can't run flash.
View ArticleHow about this patent on rectangles?
If you "liked" this page-turning patent, I can recommend a peek at their newly granted design patent for a "portable display device", USD670286. At first glance, it just looks like a patent for their...
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I forgot to include an URL to the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/USD670286
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Well, I'm not surprised, after they claimed to invent circles and rectangles.
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Wow. That's stupid. You can patent page turning? Welp, time to go to the patent office and get a patent for breathing.
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When I first heard of this elsewhere, before looking at this design patent at all, I had a guess: it would consist of pulling at the bottom-right corner of a page and dragging it to the left. Surprise,...
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You'd think wouldn't you? IIRC correctly the online version of Computer Weekly and other magazines that used the same engine did this and actually followed the click and drag of the mouse with the page...
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Makes sense, you wouldn't want people to get their eyes poked out by runaway mouse cursors.
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... so what you're claiming is that this should be covered by copyright, not a patent... what you describe "can be circumvented simply by using a different code" is copyright. This is a Design...
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There is an open source flash project that I used for a number of things over the years that looks very very much like this.
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Shh. Wally defends Apple vehemently. Your logic is not going to displace his notion that Apple is in the right in being granted this patent. After all, all any other companies need to do is show they...
View ArticlePrior Art / Obvious
If the patent application is multiple pages, shouldn't the examiner notice that he is actually doing what the patent covers just reading the application?
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I know that the bloggers on this site are supposed to be intelligent, but has anyone considered that Apple is making these patent applications partly in order to protect itself from other firms making...
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Which would still do nothing but highlight how insanely broken the patent system has become... which is the whole point here. The fact that it's Apple taking advantage of the broken system is really...
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"This just in: Apple patents actual turning of pages for all media. Lawsuits to follow."
View ArticlePatent leather brain
I want to patent the word patent. Then I can sue everyone who sues over patents. Apple, on the fast track of being the world's most hated company. "You may fool some of the people all the time etc"
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Dear Kevin: Please cease and desist the use of the phrase, "You may fool some of the people all of the time...", as it is part of a phrase we have patented. Continued use of said phrase, along with...
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