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Apple Wins a User-Interface Patent That Smartphone Copycats Should Fear




A sampling of the graphical user interfaces covered in Apple’s latest patent win.


Today Apple was granted a patent for a possibly lucrative addition to its IP arsenal: a patent for its method of displaying documents, lists, and a whole manner of other things on a portable electronic device.

It may sound snoozy, but the patent — which covers graphical user interfaces ranging from email to Camera Roll to menu lists to the multi-touch interface in general — looks like a dangerous weapon for Apple as it battles Android handset makers.

“From our point of view, it’s important that Apple not be the developer for the world. We can’t take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the D10 conference earlier this year.

The patent granted Tuesday, “Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents,” weaponizes a series of patent applications filed as far back as 2007.

“As portable electronic devices become more compact, and the number of functions performed by a given device increase, it has become a significant challenge to design a user interface that allows users to easily interact with a multifunction device,” the patent description states. “This situation is unfortunate because the user interface is the gateway through which users receive not only content but also responses to user actions or behaviors.”

Back in 2007, handset makers like RIM were adding more physical buttons for users to access the increasing amount of information on a mobile device, which resulted in “complicated key sequences and menu hierarchies that must be memorized by the user.”

Apple’s touch-only interfaces were designed to provide a more transparent and intuitive experience that would increase user satisfaction and efficiency as they navigate through the device’s menu system.

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UK judge forces Apple to publicly acknowledge that Samsung did not copy the iPad

Oh, sweet irony… Remember last week’s decision by UK judge Colin Birss who ruled that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is “not as cool” as the iPad, and not infringing on Apple’s designs?

Well, as it turns out, there is some major insult added to the injury for Apple. According to Bloomberg, Judge Birss ordered the Cupertino-based maker of the iPad to publicly acknowledge that Samsung has not copied its designs when making the Galaxy Tab. Apple will have to publish the announcement on their UK website and keep it live for six months. Also, they will have to publish the same acknowledgement in several British newspapers and magazines. There is no word yet on the contents of the acknowledgement. May I suggest “Samsung didn’t copy the iPad and we will stop stifling competition with lawsuits” repeated a hundred times?

In Birss’ opinion (which we salute), this public acknowledgement should repair some of the damage made by Apple’s repeated statements about Samsung stealing their designs. It appears that Samsung did try to obtain an injunction order that would bar Apple from ever publicly accusing the design of the Galaxy Tab again, but the UK justice denied it.

According to an Apple lawyer, the decision is prejudicial to the company, because it basically amounts to Apple having to do some free advertising to Samsung’s product. Yep, that about covers it.

http://www.androidauthority.com/apple-samsung-not-copy-announcement-uk-101832/

Jadno je ovo sto rade... Bas bas...

Pa neka rade dok mogu, ja sam kontao da to odobravanje patenata ide malo drugacije, u stvari oni njima odobre patent a ostalo je na apple-u da se bori za njih. Inace kao i sto je slide to unlock prior art tako je i 99% njihovih patenata u nekom obliku prior art.

Da, jadan je Apple koji zeli da zastiti svoj originalni UI, a Android druzina koja je iskopirala taj UI, oni su opasni frajeri koje treba da podrzimo, je li tako?

A sto se tice ovog sudije koji je nalozio da se Apple izvini Samsungu za optuzbe o kopiranju dizajna - pa, u pravu je covek.
Evo mozemo da vidimo na sledecoj slici da Samsung tableti pravljeni u stilu onih starih Windows tableta i da uopste ne podsecaju na iPad:

Ne znam sta treba da zakljucimo iz ove slike?

Samsung's Massive Document Outlining How to Improve Galaxy S by Adopting iPhone Solutions Surfaces


AllThingsD reports that the ongoing patent and design dispute between Apple and Samsung has yielded yet another interesting piece of evidence, this time in the form of a massive internal Samsung document from 2010 showing 126 different aspects of the company's Galaxy S smartphone that were considered to need improvement. Each shortcoming is displayed with a comparison to how the issue is handled on the iPhone and includes a recommendation that in most cases outlines how Samsung should make the behavior of the Galaxy S more like that of the iPhone.


  "Authored by Samsung’s product engineering team, the document evaluates everything from the home screen to the browser to the built-in apps on both devices. In each case, it comes up with a recommendation on what Samsung should do going forward and in most cases its answer is simple: Make it work more like the iPhone.

  In short, the evaluation report makes the case that the Galaxy (identified here as the “S1″) would be better if it behaved more like the iPhone and featured a similar user interface."




As the report notes, the document itself is not proof of Samsung's infringement of Apple's utility or design patents or its trade dress, but Apple is clearly using it to build its case that Samsung was looking to the iPhone as a superior device and in many cases seeking to copy the iPhone's solutions to user interface and other issues.

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