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The US Patent Office has signed, sealed, and delivered a late Christmas present to Apple. On January 20th, the powers that be awarded patent #7,479,949, titled Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics, to Apple. Essentially, Apple wins the war on their multi-touch technology and other copycats should be shaking in their boots.
Microsoft demonstrated "Surface" awhile ago, and I doubt that Palm's new interface is anything more than inspired by the Apple work. And yet - the way the system works, Apple will have (if this holds) an effective monopoly on this. How this helps an end customer like me is unclear at best.
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