{"id":994,"date":"2011-06-22T12:31:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T16:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2011-06-22T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T16:34:57","slug":"apple-touchscreen-patent-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/apple-touchscreen-patent-invalid\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Touchscreen Patent &#8211; Invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may be surprised to learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a> was granted, essentially, a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13506_3-20073257-17\/apple-scores-broad-patent-on-touch-screens\/\">patent on touchscreen computing<\/a>. (and yes, I know it&#8217;s N-finger, so technically it&#8217;s multi-touch.. regardless) There is TONS of prior art to invalidate this, and I have in my museum-of-geeky-products-i-bought-that-never-caught-on, several pre-2007 devices that can prove that.<\/p>\n<p>Really. Shush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be surprised to learn that Apple was granted, essentially, a patent on touchscreen computing. (and yes, I know it&#8217;s N-finger, so technically it&#8217;s multi-touch.. regardless) There is TONS of prior art to invalidate this, and I have in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/apple-touchscreen-patent-invalid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}