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Apple's Patent on Touch-based Gestures
On January 20, 2009, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued Patent No. 7,479,949 to Apple, entitled "Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics."  Steve Jobs is one of the co-inventors. Although the patent itself is ...
  Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent
Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent
news.worldofapple.com — According to the US Patent Office Apple was awarded patent number 7,479,949 on January 20, 2009. The... patent which was filed on April 11, 2008 covers multi-touch and all associated gestures such as pinch, swipe and rotation. The patent is titled: Touch ... (more) Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent
Apple awarded key "multi-touch" patent covering the iPhone
Apple awarded key "multi-touch" patent covering the iPhone
appleinsider.com — Apple last week was awarded a monstrous 358-page patent covering the touch screen, graphical user interface, and... methods that combine to define the iPhone user experience. (more) Apple awarded key "multi-touch" patent covering the iPhone
Apple Awarded iPhone and Multi-Touch Patent
Apple Awarded iPhone and Multi-Touch Patent
macrumors.com — Perhaps adding teeth to Apple's recent comments that they would vigorously defend their intellectual property behind the... iPhone, World of Apple notes that the U.S. Patent Office has awarded Apple the patent on their application titled Touch s... (more) Apple Awarded iPhone and Multi-Touch Patent
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Apple’s MultiTouch Patent
Technology Liberation Front — ... , who recently joined PFF to study patent issues, has a very thoughtful piece about Apple’s new patent on the multi-touch interface on the iPhone, which ends as follows: ...

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Apple Gets Their Multi-Touch Patent; Is Palm Screwed?
mashable.com 1/27/2009 — The US Patent Office has signed, sealed, and delivered a late Christmas present to Apple. On January 20th, the powers that be awarded patent #7,479,949 , titled Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by ...
United States Patent: 7479949
patft.uspto.gov 1/27/2009 — Apple’s multi-touch patent, which is currently at the forefront of hysterical (and unfounded) implications that Apple has “threatened” to sue Palm to the ground. They haven’t done any such thing. They patented the heuristics to make sense ...
Apple Gets Patent for Multi-TouchI4U News
Apple has been granted US patent number 7,479,949 for multi-touch interfaces. The patent describes a computer-implemented method to be used in conjunction with a computing device featuring a touch screen display that is capable of detecting more than ...
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