Microsoft and Samsung are playing dirty and trying to patent the pinch-to-zoom

Pinch-to-zoom. For those few who don't know, with these words, you identify that movement that we all perform hundreds of times on the display of our iPhone and iPad when we zoom in on a photo or even a web page. In short, the classic 8220; # & pinch & # 8221; with two fingers to zoom. This technology was patented by Apple several years ago, as we held out Steve Jobs during the presentation of the first iPhone dated 2007: in that 8217; # & occasion, when he was shown the pinch-to-zoom in action, the audience gasped, because in 2007 what today seems to normality, was something revolutionary. A revolution that now, with proceedings not really Orthodox, Samsung and Microsoft try to patent.

The pinch-to-zoom was patented by Apple, but in December 2012 l & # 8217; the United States Patent Office said that such recording on Samsung's request could be cancelled, but only after further investigations (when it seems that there is an earlier patent that Apple, albeit very different in some aspects). This decision was immediately taken to the leap from Samsung and Microsoft, but not from other companies like HTC, that several months ago he had agreed with Apple to 8217; # & using this technology.

The strange thing, though, is that Samsung and Microsoft have now submitted two patents from which can be deduced that the pinch-to-zoom is their invention: in short, despite knowing that the 8217; # & Provost Office hardly accept these patents, both companies are moving in this direction in order to use a & # 8217; weapon in more possible and future lawsuits against Apple.

And 8217; # & right to know: PatentlyApple & # 8220;A new patent application published by & # 8217;The Office of the United States shows that Microsoft engineers really think of inventing the pinch-to-zoom, as if there was no Apple technology & # 8221;. In short, a move that experts define & #; 8220 8221; # & dirty, because it aimed only to protect themselves against any lawsuits brought by Apple. And like Microsoft, Samung has also done such a thing, proposing a similar patent, despite the 8217; # & October 2012 a judge l 8217; # & has sentenced for violation of the pinch-to-zoom targato Apple.

The fact that in recent days, both Miocrosoft that Samsung have published patents on pinch-to-zoom, demonstrates how this technology has become essential for any smartphone or tablet touchscreen.

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