I find it remarkable that a company should have a patent on multi touch. Patents are meant to protect inventions, not trivial features. Things like multi touch and one click are not inventions, they are features that anyone will come up with when using e-commerce or touch screens, respectively. Congess should change the law here and state that patents are granted for inventions, not for trivial features.
Christine On Mar 1, 10:20 am, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote: > That's only a US patent, so anyone other than Apple can use multi-touch, > it's *only* if they have assets in the US that a problem arises. > > Al. > > > > Tseng wrote: > > Actually the chance on Multi-Touch support is next to zero. Apple was > > granted the patents for multi-touch, in other words no one other than > > Apple is allowed to use multi-touch feature in handset devices. > > > Check out the reasons: > >http://tseng-blog.nge-web.net/blog/2009/01/29/a-sad-day-for-handsets-... > > > On Feb 27, 8:02 pm, "pesh...@gmail.com" <pesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Please, > >> HTC G1 is perfectly capable of multi touch support. Please guys > >> implement that in the next OTA update if possible. I understand is > >> something that Apple Created with their Iphone, but G1 has a lot of > >> petential and multi touch i needed for the sucess of this product. > >> Google works with Apple and I am sure you can implement that feature > >> with the phone. > >> Thank you. > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
