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Apple's Stupid Patents It Wants to Use Against Samsung's Galaxy S4 ~pj
Authored by: frederik on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 12:27 AM EDT
It seems pretty clear from Apple's description that "pen" = "stylus" = "pointy/touchy device" = in the end "finger".

There are plenty of patents of stylus pointing on screen picking things or generating writing, eg:

http://www.google.com/patents/E P0189590A2 and

http://www.google.com/patents/E P0270909B1.

Maintaining a history list, eg:

http://www.google.com/patents/US5 007019.

So, the invention (also requirement) is storing values for different field classes in different tables? And putting these things together?

Also amazed that sliding my finger over a picture of a latch is an invention over using my finger to slide a (real) latch. Wow!

Agree with previous poster.

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Apple's Stupid Patents It Wants to Use Against Samsung's Galaxy S4 ~pj
Authored by: JamesK on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 07:46 AM EDT
Apple is rotten to the core!

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