On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Julian Rohrhuber
<rohrhuber_at_uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>> How long before we find the first US software
>> patent on live coding?
>
> Let's keep on working hard
> to make it all prior art.
Best comment so far. :)
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:08 AM, nescivi <nescivi_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 January 2010 04:07:20 alex wrote:
>> I think I read somewhere that the chuck runtime and language are part
>> of smule, in which case the same applies to ChucK. It seems a bit
>> like tivoisation by the back door. Patents come into it on a tangent
>> because the iphone is full of them. In the US, the android o/s has
>> multitouch disabled, because Apple have the US software patent on
>> touching your computer in more than one place at the same time.
>> Software patents may well come to Europe in the near future.
>
> From when does this patent date?
> I've seen multitouch surfaces (not from Apple) a long time before the iPhone
> came out, so just wondering...
These seem to be the relevant patents:
http://www.google.com/patents?q=apple%20multi-touch&btnG=Search%20Patents&as_psrg=1
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Tom Lieber
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