The Broken Patent System: Apple Now Owns Page Turns

Nick Bilton writing for NYTimes

 If you want to know just how broken the patent system is, just look at patent D670,713, filed by Apple and approved this week by the United States Patent Office.
This design patent, titled, “Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface,” gives Apple the exclusive rights to the page turn in an e-reader application.

How ridiculous it is. A company now owns page turns. 

Yes, that’s right. Apple now owns the page turn

So, Apple can now sue anyone who uses the same animation in eReader. How funny is that. 

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