Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid 247
An anonymous reader writes "Apple's most famous multitouch software patents are increasingly coming under invalidation pressure. First the rubber-banding patent and now a patent that Apple's own lawyers planned to introduce to a Chicago jury as 'the Jobs patent.' U.S. Patent No. 7,479,949 covers a method for distinguishing vertical and horizontal gestures from diagonal movements based on an initial angle of movement. For example, everything up to a slant of 27 degrees would be considered vertical or horizontal, and everything else diagonal. The patent office now seems to think that Apple didn't invent the concept of 'heuristics' after all."
Re:I hear millions of ifans (Score:5, Funny)
you mean iGony
Re:6-months old news (Score:1, Funny)
fuck da police
Too Easy (Score:2, Funny)
Re: "...Apple didn't invent the concept of 'heuristics' after all".
Wrong. Apple not only invented heuristics, they also invented the US Patent Office. Then patented them both!
Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, i bet he's really upset, too.
Oh wait, he's dead, shut up.
Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? (Score:5, Funny)
the last mac I bought was not even a year old when saint jesus jobs deemed my very expensive computer unworthy of OSX... 8 years later someone figured out if you swap two bytes in ram you could run upto os 10.2 on the fucker.
So making a decision to fuck over customers cause he wanted basically the same machine in a dumb shit blue case is just one of a billion reasons that arrogant con-artist deserves a boot up his used car salesman ass, both in life and in death.
Course now that he is dead, he cant dazzle you morons with a new toy
Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? (Score:5, Funny)
8 years later someone figured out if you swap two bytes in ram you could run upto os 10.2 on the fucker.
That's probably what killed him.
(Too soon?)
Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? (Score:5, Funny)
Apple would have filed a patent on distinguishing right from wrong, except they never got that one to work.
Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? (Score:5, Funny)
They'll just re-apply using a 26.5 degree angle.
Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? (Score:0, Funny)
I built the most valuable company in human history.
Re:What wrong has Steve done to you? (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, that's because it was denied when he applied for it in the first place.