Apple owns the page turn now
The patent wars get sillier.
"If you want to know just how broken the patent system is, just look at patent D670,713 filed by Apple and approved this week by the United States Patent Office," complains The New York Times.
Apple says its e-book software has a unique page-turning animation - although the uniqueness isn't immediately obvious from three illustrations used to support the company's filing.
One shows a page beginning to turn, the second the page turning a bit more, and the third the page turning a bit more again.
To the layman, it might look silly.
But to an army of lawyers it will look like another motherlode as Apple swaps smartphone and tablet patent lawsuits in its worldwide fight with Google, Samsung and others in the Android camp.
And if you think a page-turn patent is over-the-top, consider that Apple also recently won a patent for a rounded rectangle shape, and is attempting to patent the iPhone's vibrate mode.
NBR staff
Sun, 18 Nov 2012
Sun, 18 Nov 2012
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Apple owns the page turn now
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