Apple no longer claiming trademark on "Multi-Touch"

4. abdane posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:09 7 0

hope Google would replace the blue highlight thing that replaced the " Scroll-Back-and-Bounce " patent from apple, make it more cool Google !

24. nnaatthhaannx2 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 15:11 1 0

YES!!
I hate it! Chrome doesn't even have that blue thing and it is the most annoying thing ever.

26. cheetah2k posted on 29 Jan 2013, 15:41 8 1

So does this mean all the companies whos devices Apple stopped from being released over MT, can now claim compensation for losses and associated damages?

All you people buying Apple products realise you're buying them from a bunch of lying, misleading, conniving retards don't you?

29. Hemlocke posted on 29 Jan 2013, 16:31 0 5

This is just the trademark on the term "Multi-Touch." Samsung's poor effort aside, Apple indisputably owns the first, and most important, patent on multitouch mobile screens.

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32. sithvenger (banned) posted on 29 Jan 2013, 17:13 0 0

Yep and love them too

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15. Droid_X_Doug posted on 29 Jan 2013, 13:02 6 0

One down, more to go. Somehow, I don't think Apple will do as well at the USPTO as they did in years past.

18. PhenomFaz posted on 29 Jan 2013, 13:31 3 0

Finally! Gotta say its very...conniving of Apple to add a hyphen in a word and call it theirs!

No doubt they have samrt people at Apple....but this just being oversmart and making a monkey of yourself. if they would have got the rights to this word then they would have sued companies using this word saying that other companies may not have the hyphen but multitouch word without the hyphen also seems too similar to ours!

They got what's coming to them...an egg on the face and quite frankly where is the innovation gone out of Apple? what happened to the company that was in 2007?
do they pay people at Apple nowadaysto put punctuations in words of the english dictionary and apply for trademaeks and patents on those words?

Its a fast changing tech world and Apple needs to step or they could be in a similar situattion like in 1997! nobody's untouchable....not Kodak, not Nokia....nobody and there is proof of this in the last 5 years!

5. gwuhua1984 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:21 4 1

Correction, $800 iPad, $799 after tax, almost $900 dollars...

11. InspectorGadget80 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:42 2 2

ok forgot bout the tax

9. Ninetysix posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:37 0 8

So much ignorant in this post. Go ahead and go to the multitouch wiki and tell me which smartphone company you see in there. Do you see any Android manufacturer in the evolution of multitouch?

Now google how many companies Apple bought in the last few years and now do the same for Google. Which one bought the most companies?

As for the pricing, do you know how much Samsung is charging for the note 8.0?

10. Ninetysix posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:39 0 5

answers to the slow pokes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch

acquisitions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Google

Note 8.0 pricing:
The sources inform us that Austrian stores are going to ask €450 – €480 ($600 - $645) for the 16GB version of the Note 8.0, while the 32GB will have a price tag of about €490 – €550 ($655 - $740).

14. JC557 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:55 3 0

Our friends from xerox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laApNiNpnvI

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16. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 29 Jan 2013, 13:27 3 0

Wikipedia: open source website that an be modified by the general public.

Great source you have there.

20. Ninetysix posted on 29 Jan 2013, 13:45 0 1

Please go ahead and prove me wrong. I'll wait.

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22. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 29 Jan 2013, 15:08 4 0

Prove what wrong, that you cited an open source web site? Wiki is so bad that a lot of universities don't allow it as a reference site for written papers.

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30. Hemlocke posted on 29 Jan 2013, 16:35 0 3

That is true, but it doesn't change the fact that he is correct. Apple owns the first multitouch mobile screen technology patent. They bought Fingerworks years before the iPhone was released.

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34. joey_sfb posted on 29 Jan 2013, 18:04 1 0

Apple fans!! Looking out for the benefit of their masters' pockets. Tim Cook would be please. LOL!!!

Apple sucks balls!!

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42. AstronautJones posted on 29 Jan 2013, 22:41 0 0

Think you are kind of proving him wrong. He is trying to infer Apple "invented" everything multitouch and Google is the one that purchases companies instead of innovating.

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40. InspectorGadget80 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 20:31 0 0

Damn man calm down. It like apple wants to be a communists to own every word piece of technology out their for something they think they created and their not being fair or want to be competitive with other companies. Now thats being selfish & greedy

37. bayusuputra posted on 29 Jan 2013, 18:57 1 1

No dude, it''s just apple being apple.. claiming what's not theirs as theirs..

12. InspectorGadget80 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:43 2 0

me too

17. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 29 Jan 2013, 13:28 5 0

Comment of the day!

19. timtimity posted on 29 Jan 2013, 13:38 4 0

Just to back up your comment (check out the last point on the slide):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZBLjxPBUU

21. ilia1986 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 14:26 0 0

I know - that's where it's from :)

33. sithvenger (banned) posted on 29 Jan 2013, 17:14 0 0

U know you're a huge apple fan dude. Get real.

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41. ilia1986 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 21:14 1 0

Of course. I take immense pleasure in bashing apple at each and every opportunity. But of course - according to sithvenger here - im a huge apple fan.

To Tim Cook: when apple is goes down, and becomes a niche toothbrush company, and is worth less than a few cigarette packs - then you have my permission to retire.

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28. drnggaj33 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 16:10 1 0

no they stole and they said apple invented it

31. Hemlocke posted on 29 Jan 2013, 16:38 0 2

No, they do own multitouch, and everyone is paying them licensing fees. Fingerworks developed the multitouch capacitive technology, and Apple bought them almost a decade ago, even before Android was a Blackberry clone.

36. -SEUL8TR- posted on 29 Jan 2013, 18:28 0 0

Hoping all there patents gets invalidated soon....!

38. tedkord posted on 29 Jan 2013, 18:57 2 0

Not all. Just the ones that should never have been granted. Like slide to unlock.