27 Jan 09 Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent Covering the iPhone

I guess we pretty much expected this move, right? Apple was awarded a 358-page patent covering the touch screen, GUI and various other methods that define that iPhone user experience.

All those pages cover the technologies that contribute to the iPhone experience. You’ll find a detailed description of the way various gestures like pinches and zooms, finger swipes, two-thumb twists and more work.

The patent has some features which we might find in the future iPhone versions. There’s a blogging application and a digital video camera application, voice-activated dialing and there’s even a touch-sensitive area described which is supposed to act as a touchpad ready to activate and deactivate functions.

Now that Apple has the patent, are we going to see the company go to trial against some of its competition?

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