Stuart Gray writes: >I was just watching the apple iPhone keynote. And when Steve Jobs is describing the phone touchscreen interface, he says they have patented it. What does this mean about the OpenMoko phone? I am not overly knowledgable about patent protection, so it may be a silly question. But doesn't the fact that they have the mobile phone touchscreen interface patented mean that you cannot realease the OpenMoko as it is infringing on it?
If there's a patent on that, it's much older than Apple's -- my Samsung PalmOS phone from around 2002 or so has a touchscreen interface. iphone has quite a few interesting bells and whistles on their interface: they claim it can detect multiple-fingers, it can distinguish accidental brushing from deliberate pushing, etc. It must be some combination of those extra features that's patented. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
