Apple has finally won the new patent that could potentially stop other manufacturers from selling touchscreen devices. Three and a half years after filing the patent, Apple has won the patent for “[a] computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display, [that] comprises displaying a portion of page content, including a frame displaying a portion of frame content and also including other content of the page, on the touch screen display.”
This patent is a huge blow for other smartphone and touchscreen competitors of Apple. This new patent gives the right of the capacitive multitouch displays only to Apple. This means that Apple can now stop any mobile device that incorporates multitouch finger movements.
These are potentially being used in Apple’s rivals such as HTC, Motorola, RIM, Nokia and Samsung and many others running OS other than iOS, which means, the only big iOS rival, Android.
Lets see what PCMag wants to say about the other side of this new revolutionary patent:
“This patent covers smartphones that allow a user to manipulate the display of a Web page with finger gestures using different fingers and/or combinations of fingers, so it appears broad enough to cover all modern touchscreen smartphones because they all allow you to use one finger to move the Web page left or right, and a combination of two fingers to zoom in and zoom out of the Web page,” the source said.
Resources: US Patent: 7966578