My personal take is that there is a whole lot of prior art (the iPhone was not the first by a long shot), so it's probably not super- defensible in court... but Apple has deep pockets and an elite image to maintain. They apparently have about 200 patents on the iPhone, two of which especially deal with their touchscreen technology -- but I haven't looked into the details.
On Jan 11, 11:32 am, Sena Gbeckor-Kove <[email protected]> wrote: > Great! Does anybody know if this is ok IP wise, or is a lawsuit likely? > > S > > On 11 Jan 2009, at 13:30, luke wrote: > > > > > I have multitouch working on the G1 in a way that is backwards- > > compatible with single-touch applications. I capture the multitouch > > events and then hijack an unused field in MotionEvent to pass the > > multitouch events in a way that only affects programs that have been > > designed to work in multitouch mode -- i.e. this did not require re- > > plumbing the event system. The approach also does not require any > > kernel modifications, it just needs modifications to one Java system > > class. > > > Video and full source here: > >http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/android-stuff/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
