你大概看不懂英文吧 !? iPod 方向鍵專利本身就有問題, 法官未加細查. 判決似有草率疏忽之疑!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/0...t_apple_patent/
Microsoft, Apple 'spar over iPod patent'

Apple's rotation application, we discover, received its first NFR on September 29, 2004 and was bounced again on June 13 this year.

But Platt's playlist application also has a rejection history. It received an NFR on 17 November 2002, and a more serious Final Rejection on 14 June 2004. After further documentation was received, and extension granted, the application received another NFR on 11 December last year.

Apple has filed a number of applications to protect the iPod and iTunes user interfaces, including 60/359,551 ("Touch Pad for Handheld Device") and 60/387,692 ("Method and Apparatus for Use of Rotational User Inputs").

Apple is facing two infringement suits claiming the iPod violates existing IP.


http://www.news.com/Microsoft,-Appl..._3-5830435.html
http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._interface.html
Apple fails to patent iPod interface

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4510044.stm
Apple faces iPod patent dispute