Ok enough. I would rather keep this thread open than have it closed because of two people arguing over small items.
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Thanks for proving you're just an angry fanboy upset that a company is defending its IP. I've been around here far longer than you, and it's clear you haven't paid any attention to my posting history, despite your claims to the contrary.
I do not support or hate any company. I respond when I see people thinking with their rear ends instead of the brain they were born with, and that includes defending apple, google, or any other company that comes under attack by the likes of you for no rational reason. Nothing deserves the constant stream of hatred that you and others here like to throw at apple, Microsoft and others. All the behaviors you identify above have been exhibited by all of the companies I've mentioned, google included. None are angels, and none are as evil as you seem to want them to be.
So here's a tip: even though this is an android site, it isn't an echo chamber. You post fanboy bs, you'll get called on it, just like anyone else here. Do step outside your bubble and join the rest of us, won't you?
Oh, and just for good measure: the only reason google dropped the case against apple was the impending antitrust investigations into Motorola's patent licensing behavior that could significantly impact their patent portfolio. No company drops a suit out of the goodness of their heart, google included.
Do you have any proof to back this up?
Finally! Some progress is being made.
http://m.androidcentral.com/apple-s...nvalid-uspto?utm_source=ac&utm_medium=twitter
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Clarification: there is no such thing as a tentative invalidation. The USPTO issued a tentative rejection of the claims, which may or may not lead to invalidation. As Engadget noted in their coverage, it's the first step towards invalidation, but apple will get to respond and could narrow the scope of the patent in order to stop it from being invalidated. It's very similar to what happened with the bounce back patent:
http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/10/...alidity-of-apple-bounce-back-patent-rejection
I agree but what would you like to see happen with this patent?
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Significant narrowing of scope.
I'm not sure what that means.
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Various companies expanded upon these inventions in the beginning of the twenty-first century. The company Fingerworks developed various multi-touch technologies between 1999 and 2005, including Touchstream keyboards and the iGesture Pad. Several studies of this technology were published in the early 2000s by Alan Hedge, professor of human factors and ergonomics at Cornell University.[10][11][12] Apple acquired Fingerworks and its multi-touch technology in 2005. Mainstream exposure to multi-touch technology occurred in 2007 when the iPhone gained popularity, with Apple stating they 'invented multi touch' as part of the iPhone announcement,[13] however both the function and the term predate the announcement or patent requests, except for such area of application as capacitive mobile screens, which did not exist before Fingerworks/Apple's technology (Fingerworks filed patents in 2001-2005[14], subsequent multitouch refinements were patented by Apple[15]).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontev...st-time-in-9-years-in-q4-financials-to-shine/
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We'll see. Analysts are frequently wrong when it comes to apple. (And google for that matter)