Already 1971: http://www.elotouch.com/AboutE...efault.asp

Seriously it is just getting painful reading articles on this site. Not sure how much longer I can stand reading it.

"expanded its lawsuit that against numerous companies using touch screen technologies in their products."

"covering licensing fees more millions of products sold every year."

"Since then, Typhoon has reached an agreement with Motion Computing or an undisclosed sum settled with Electrovaya."

^The most egregious examples; there are plenty more in this article alone. I'm fine with the occasional typo/grammatical mistake but when you can't go two sentences in a page-long article... Come on.

Typhoon touch was founded in 2005, meaning that there are multiple products that predate Typhoon. This is an other company formed for the purpose of filing law suits to rip off large corporations. It is not to large a leap to guess that the people that they are trying rip off will hand them their butt on a plater. Its really to bad that there isn't a law to make these people do some serious jail time.

when you see any dirt on the computer screen, isn't your instinct to wipe it away.? the same thing, when you look at any webpage, you do feel like to scroll the page up by touching the screen right? As if it is a paper.
Should such an basic action allowed to be patented?
Other than that, a patent should not include or utilize any public domain. If not, it is not innovative enough. it is a waste of human being brain juice on fighting the match and mismatches amongst patents.

If patent office keeps allowing common sense to be patented, it is the common sense to shutdown patent office.

Who cares it's FREE!!! If I was paying for this site I might care.

Has it occurred to anyone that Apple is being sued because they have a big appetite for other's patent property and a big ego that gets in the way of acquiring the rights to the patent properties they need to succeed in the market?

Have you considered that Apple is sued after they have refused a legitimate offer for a license?

Have you wondered why Apple produces lots of patents yet still misses the most important technology they need to satisfy their customers?

Or have you considered that Apple's membership in the Coalition for Patent fairness and PIRACY, aka. the Piracy Coalition is a good indication that birds of a feather do flock together?

Some companies start as inventors, and some start as parasites on those who have invented. Eventually they end up alike, one group never being inventive and the second losing the ability to produce significant inventions as they age. Both will try to substitute quantity in patent filings for the quality of inventions they are incapable of producing. It does not work.

All Piracy Coalition members fit one of these profiles. Tech companies who are past their prime, insurance and banking collectively have no shame!

What they are very good at producing is innovative media hype which obfuscates the reality of their existence. Their multi-million dollar “troll” campaign is a perfect example of this. They paint their victims as “trolls” while the courts are finding their conduct so egregious that they are handing down staggering judgments. This is what happens to those who are caught lying, cheating, and stealing and no amount of public relations painting their victims as evil “trolls” can change the facts of these cases.

Personally I think that it is a shame that Piracy Coalition members have failed to learn the lesson that inventors and the courts are teaching. It is all about conducting one’s business in an ethical manner!

Ronald J. Riley,

Speaking only on my own behalf.

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Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
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President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
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