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December 20, 2012 08:58 pm GMT

Apple Pinch-to-Zoom Patent Invalidated in Preliminary Review


An Apple patent that paved the way for pinch-to-zoom functionality on the iPhone or iPad should not have been awarded in the first place, said the United States Patent and Trademark Office in a preliminary ruling made public late Wednesday.

The patent is among six that lie at the heart of Apple's most recent lawsuit against Samsung, one of its top competitors in the mobile phone and tablet marketplace. Samsung was recently ordered by a jury to pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages for copyright infringement as a result of that case, but that number may change as a result of the USPTO's decision this week.

The patent, number 7,844,915, has widely been characterized in the media as "the Pin
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