Apples Steve Jobs Patent Is in Trouble

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has filed paperwork to declare a key Apple patent invalid.

The patent has to do with how the multi-touch screen works on an iPhone or iPad -- most notably how lists bounce when you get to the end of them -- and has often been referred to as the "Steve Jobs" patent since he's listed first among the many inventors (Scott Forstall is second).

The USPTO made the filing on Dec. 3, and it was first reported by FOSS Patents. It declares all 20 of the claims in Apple's patent for a "touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics" (No. 7,479,949) to be invalid. Covering the many ways the way a scree…
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