Comments on: Blackberry patents: Angled Slider and RIM Multi-Touch technology

By: Staska

Staska — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:10:35 +0000

Nope.

Apple may own patent (when issued)for the capacitive touchscreen that is able to identify multiple touches simultaneously. Maybe a trademark for “Multi-Touch”.

And, maybe, some of the gestures, if they can stand in court when/if patent is issued. It’s only a patent application for now, and there is a prior art. Google Jeff Hann for more info.

This is completely different touchscreen technology (no capacitive touch identification involved), based on electrodes embedded withing LCD display.

By: al

al — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:48:54 +0000

Title Typo, Apple owns the patent to multi-touch.
This RIM patent is only for the slider tilt part probably.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:45:53 +0000

Errmmmm, have they seen the htc tytn2 with is tilt mechanism
>> I am just drawing up a patent for my own multitouch device whihc I will call the Bannana iphone.