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According to one rumor, Google had a gentleman’s agreement with Apple not to use multi-touch in Android, as part of a fragile partnership between the two companies. Patent and Trademark Office issued a tentative first Office action invalidating an Apple multitouch patent credited in part to cofounder Steve Jobs, the body has. Apple is accused of violating a multitouch patent with several of its products, including the iPad, which arrives in stores Saturday.

#Apple multitouch patent android

After Palm broke the mold with the Pre, and didn’t get sued, Android followed, and multi-touch is now a standard smartphone feature. This seems kind of crazy now, but there was a time when other smartphones didn’t use multi-touch. The patent simply covers the way an iPhone can tell if you want to scroll up and down only, or side-to-side as well, based on the angle your finger hits the screen. This was once regarded as Apple’s key multi-touch patent, but as Engadget’s Nilay Patel points out in January 2009, there’s really nothing multi-touch about it. The closest Apple has come in the past is with “ Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics,” applied against both HTC and Nokia. Patent and Trademark Office issued a tentative first Office action invalidating an Apple multitouch patent credited in part to cofounder Steve Jobs, the body has. Apple has never used these patents for lawsuits before, and from what I can tell, Apple’s lawsuits against other smartphone manufacturers, such as HTC and Nokia, don’t specifically target multi-touch. That means motions such as pinch, rotate and swipe. In what could be a game changer for the smartphone industry, Apple was awarded a patent for its multi-touch interface for the iPhone and iPod touch.Patent number 7,479,949 was filed on 11 April.

You don’t have to be a master of legal jargon to see that both patents involve touching a screen with multiple fingers at the same time. The patent covers not only the practical aspects of a multitouch display, but also the gesture set that has come to be associated with it. Multipoint Touchscreen: “A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed.”