I did a little digging since posting this. A developer at Microsoft named Bill Buxton has an interesting time line on the history of multi touch ... I think that this suggests that one (with deep pockets and the motivation) might be able to argue prior art:
http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html Perhaps the deep pocketed one might be Palm ... here is a recent news article on some words between Apple and Palm on the IP ... http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/23/palm-will-defend-its-ip-too-says-former-apple-spokesperson/ Jason Van Anden www.smileproject.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:13 PM, JP <joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I speculate one of the reasons that multi-touch was not in the Android > "package" because the patent was pending. I predict that noone outside > Apple will touch multi-touch even with a 10ft. pole (pun intended). > > The bigger issue in my view is gesture-based scrolling, which *is* > part of Android and which happens to be claimed in the patent. > Somebody enlighten us how this is not going to be a battle down the > road? > > > > > > On Jan 27, 9:52 am, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote: > > It's only a US patent and the world is a big place. > > > > All it means is that if anyone has a Multi-Touch innovation and wants to > > play it safe will stay out of the US market. > > > > Welcome to America, the land of the free, well, as long as you have the > > right lawyer that is. > > > > Al. > > > > robotissues wrote: > > > via Slashdot .. > > > > >http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F27%2F024242&from=rss > > > > > Does this really put the kabosh on multitouch on Android for the next > > > 18 years? Anyone out there have any thoughts on this? > > > > >www.smileproject.com > > > > -- > > ====== > > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > > subsidiaries. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
