<story><title>Apple&apos;s Secrets Revealed During Trial</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Mr. Forstall said he invented a patent for double-tapping on Web pages because as he had been using a prototype of the iPhone to surf the web, he realized he was spending a lot of time pinching and zooming the page to fit text perfectly on the screen.&lt;p&gt;&quot;I realized I have this incredibly powerful device, why can&apos;t it figure out the right size for me?&quot; he said. So, he challenged his team to make the software automatically size the text into the center of the screen when he double-tapped around a webpage.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is why we&apos;re in such a sad state with regard to software patents.  This guy genuinely believes that he &quot;&lt;i&gt;invented&lt;/i&gt;&quot; something.  And that it should be patentable.&lt;p&gt;Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was &quot;decide how something should work&quot;.  You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it&apos;s not in any way a big deal.  Certainly not something you should call &quot;inventing&quot;, and absolutely not something that you should consider patenting.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s just one of thousands of design decisions you make.  It&apos;s just sad to watch people who don&apos;t understand that making things worse for everybody.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple&apos;s Secrets Revealed During Trial</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tosseraccount</author><text>[ In cross-examination, Mr. Forstall said Eddy Cue, now head of Apple&apos;s Internet services efforts, had used a 7-inch Samsung tablet for a time, and sent an email to Chief Executive Tim Cook that he believed &quot;there will be a 7-inch market and we should do one.&quot; ]&lt;p&gt;Sounds like everybody came up with similar, unprotectable stuff, with great inspiration from each other.  Not guilty.  Next case!</text></comment>