I desire you ’re not a huge fan of skeumorphic virtual page turning . If you are , I hope you have an iOS machine . Why ? Because Apple just get a letters patent for that . Yup , Apple has a patent on turning false pages .
Patent D670,713 , entitle “ Display screenland or percentage thereof with animate graphic drug user port ” was approved by the USPTO this week and effectively consecrate Apple dibs on the animation that ’s so fastidiously documented in the look-alike above . The patent is — as worthful patents incline to be — both simple and extremely all-embracing . The pattern letters patent merely covers the sequential vivification of the soma show in the three number , but makes no credit of what this animation enforce to . So this patent is actually large-minded than just an eBook affair , although that ’s probably it ’s only use . On the other hand though , it should only lend oneself to that specific animation , not others like it .
This is just a design patent , so it ’s not like Apple ’s ownership of this patent will keep other eReaders from providing functionality ; it ’ll just keep them from wait like books while doing it . Or thrust them to sham page turn from the top quoin alternatively of the bottom . Granted , this is n’t world shattering stuff , but it all seems pretty unintelligent . Is this really material that we want to be patenting ? [ The New York Times ]
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