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A recently uncovered patent application submitted in January 2009 by Microsoft is threatening to open up the old wounds we sustained when the Courier was canceled. The patent is for an animated page turn effect not unlike that seen in the iPad's iBooks and Kindle apps.
Part of the application reads, "The virtual page turn actively follows the page-turning gesture. The virtual page turn curls a lifted portion of the page to progressively reveal a back side of the page while progressively revealing a front side of a subsequent page." Sounds familiar, right? Neither Microsoft nor Apple can claim to have invented this, and it's unclear if this patent would have been granted.
If the application were granted, Microsoft would seemingly have no place to implement it. Add it to Windows 7 tablets? Maybe. More likely, this will just stand as another reminder of what the Courier could have been.
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LatiosXT
July 09, 2010 at 7:22am
That's what I thought too.
I guess we ran out of things to copyright so we've finally come down to copyrighting EVERY DAY ANY AVERAGE JOE COULD COME UP WITH items.
Mark17
July 08, 2010 at 5:29pm
I didn't know turning pages was patented. So, I guess Microsoft would have to come and sue me, I've been turning virtual and physical pages. I had no idea that the concept of turning pages was invented by Microsoft.
That's just another reason the patent system doesn't work. One company does something, then another sues because they say their idea was stolen. What a waste of time and money for everyone involved.
jgraves000
July 08, 2010 at 5:10pm
I remember when they patented page up and page down a few years back even though its been around forever. I wouldn't say fuck microsoft, I would say fuck the whole patent system. I wonder if I could shit in a bag and patent it.
jgraves000
July 08, 2010 at 4:55pm
Software patents like this always piss me off. It's just rediculous the things they try to patent.
dovella
July 08, 2010 at 10:28pm
this is a Link to Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2007/01/30/great-wpf-applications-1-british-library-turning-the-pages.aspx
and this is Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT0lao0PPNQ&feature=player_embedded
