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Fourteen floors
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 04:49 PM EDT
> BTW, those touch sensitive switches also use body capacitance to function,

To the amusement/annoyance of lift users when a passenger came in
with a wet coat and brushed against the button panel...
(that would be back before either Jobs or Cook had seen a keyboard)

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Zero length
Authored by: PolR on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 05:21 PM EDT
By that logic, tapping to unlock will infringe the Apple slide to unlock
patent.

I think judge Posner doesn't want a silly patent he can't find invalid have an
overly broad scope to boot.

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Old is New
Authored by: mexaly on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 06:20 PM EDT
A great deal of human interface design leads to metaphors of devices we learned
to use in childhood.

Sometimes, prior art is a pretty tough hair to split.

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Zero length
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 09:36 AM EDT
Well, mathematically the same you say. All of this time
I thought mathematics were not patentable.

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  • Zero length - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 11:31 PM EDT
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