Multi-Touch Prior Art

by Tim Lee on January 11, 2007 · Comments

Mike Masnick has some good comments on the iPhone. Most interestingly, he points out that many of the technologies have been demonstrated before. Here is a really cool video demonstrating multi-touch interfaces from last February. The only thing it’s missing is Steve’s legendary Reality Distortion Field.

Comments Posted in: Patents

  • Ted: Really? I've watched the video twice now and I didn't catch that. At what point in the video does he mention that? Or are you saying that Han helped Apple get the patents?
  • The demonstration of Jeff Han was explicitly referring to Apple having the patents on this stuff.
  • Noel: A more fundamental question. Why is the patent office allowing these patents? If the patent office was doing its job, the patents would be rejected.
  • So are you invalidating Apple's patents?
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