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Originally Posted by island911 View Post
Back then Amazon, IIRC tried (did?) patent "one touch purchase" . . .as if patents should apply to such obvious outcomes. :-/

Would you say that the clock on your phone also stole their idea? ...you know, a dynamic info field ("tile" if you will) which when touched, takes the user into more information and/or settings.

So many of these tech patents are just cyber-squatting on what is inevitable extrapolation of code.
And US courts have held up the "rectangle with rounded corners" IP for Apple. So don't count your chickens just yet.
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