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Analyst: Defending Multi-touch Could Hurt Apple
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 AM - by Jeff Gamet
Apple COO Tim Cook made it clear that the company plans to vigorously defend its patents, but its multi-touch patent may not be so easy to protect. According to Global Crown Capital analyst Pablo Perez-Fernandez, Apple's multi-touch patent may qualify as prior art and the U.S. Patent Office shouldn't have issued the patent at all.
According to CNBC, Mr. Perez-Fernandez claimed that the technology behind Apple's multi-touch wizardry -- found in the iPhone, iPod touch, and laptop trackpads -- comes from University and Bell Labs work. Bell Labs, for example, developed a way to overlay transparent capacitive sensors on CRT displays, creating a touch-sensitive display long before Apple filed for its patents.
While Apple's public posturing to protect its patents looks to be aimed at Palm and its recently announced Pre smartphone, he thinks the Cupertino company may be looking at Microsoft, too. "They are also trying to pre-empt Microsoft's use of multi-touch in Windows 7 and they are trying to trademark multi-touch, which is ridiculous since the term has been used openly for a long time," Mr. Perez-Fernandez said.
Should Apple end up in court defending its multi-touch related patents, Mr. Perez-Fernandez thinks the Mac and iPhone maker could end up in hot water and potentially lose some of the patents it has already been awarded. Apple, however, would probably disagree since it has a long list of attorneys researching its patents and legal strategies, and Mr. Perez-Fernandez is a financial analyst.
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