Apple granted page turning animation patent.

**ab304945** · 11-18-2012, 01:48 PM

Google should be ok with their book app. Animation is different than shown in the Apple patent.
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**Slender Troll** · 11-18-2012, 03:28 PM

What about the Barnes and Noble Android app?

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**zapfrog** · 11-19-2012, 07:03 AM

I'm sorry but getting a patent for a motion, animation, etc. is just an abuse of the patent system and shame on our patent system for letting it happen.

**Shadowriver** · 11-19-2012, 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by zapfrog

I'm sorry but getting a patent for a motion, animation, etc. is just an abuse of the patent system and shame on our patent system for letting it happen.

It's not abuse, if you can patent something like that it means the system is broken... because you can simply do that, or else that patent contains method how to achieve such anumation

**xlDeMoNiClx** · 11-19-2012, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by zapfrog

I'm sorry but getting a patent for a motion, animation, etc. is just an abuse of the patent system and shame on our patent system for letting it happen.

And Apple patenting black phones with rounded corners a little while ago isn't? Apple has been abusing the obviously-broken patent system for months now.

**Slender Troll** · 11-19-2012, 11:05 AM

Anyone know what it means for the barnes and noble nook app for android? I really dont want to see the page turn animations get taken out of the app.

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**xlDeMoNiClx** · 11-19-2012, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Slender Troll

Anyone know what it means for the barnes and noble nook app for android? I really dont want to see the page turn animations get taken out of the app.

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Shouldn't mean anything, they had the animation before the patent was allowed. Apple can suck a lemon if they think if they can just force them to get rid of it.

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**Slender Troll** · 11-19-2012, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by xlDeMoNiClx

Shouldn't mean anything, they had the animation before the patent was allowed. Apple can suck a lemon if they think if they can just force them to get rid of it.

This is from me, on my EVO 3D.

Thank you.

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Ry · 11-19-2012, 12:10 PM

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**anjali_jain** · 11-20-2012, 12:45 AM

How the *(&*%$ does Apple keep getting design patents for things that already exist and have existed way before they even filed the patent?

**Chris Kerrigan** · 11-20-2012, 09:08 AM

This isn't as significant as a lot of people are making it out to be, I don't think. The patent at a glance appears to be pretty broad, but the patent (as ridiculous as it is) narrowly defines Apple's current page turning animation, which is slightly different from what Google, B&N and Amazon use.

**gollum18** · 11-20-2012, 02:38 PM

Umm shouldn't that motion be industry standard. I swear apple can get a patent for anything.

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**xlDeMoNiClx** · 11-20-2012, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by gollum18

Umm shouldn't that motion be industry standard. I swear apple can get a patent for anything.

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You have to remember though, to Apple "industry standard" means their standard.

**Slender Troll** · 11-20-2012, 10:37 PM

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**retsaw** · 11-22-2012, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Shadowriver

It's not abuse, if you can patent something like that it means the system is broken... because you can simply do that, or else that patent contains method how to achieve such anumation

Just because the system is broken, it doesn't mean these ridiculous patents aren't an abuse of the system.