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Apple granted monopoly rights to gesture recognition on multitouch displays (cnet.co)
2 points by hammock on June 30, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Unless you can find some prior art they deserve the patent. I worked doing touch screen kiosks back in the day and things hadn't changed much over the course of twenty years. In fact the only folks who really played with the medium was Microsoft and I'm not sure if they added anything the way Apple did. Besides if you're looking for place to innovate light pens are well overdue to be reinvented.




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