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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 07:24 AM EDT |
The "patented technology" (of the '381 patent) does not lay claim to
how the translation, rotation, and scaling of the graphical imagery occurs --
these things are assumed as part of the underlying device (and would not be
patentable as such anyway, given their "invention" decades ago). The
only temporal aspect of the patented claims are that input gesture be read and
the output commanded to be translated, rotated, scaled so as to simulate the
real world analog. This amounts to little more than moving a few bytes around in
memory and performing some rudimentary arithmetic. These operations can
certainly be simulated in a timely manner.
Again, it is not a requirement under patent law that the prior art device (a
Diamond Touch) be able to execute Apple's implementation of their patented
technology, but if it were then the only relevant code execution is that
actually claimed by their patent -- how well the other aspects of Apple's code
performs on the device is inconsequential.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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