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		chaosprophet on Oct 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nokia sues Apple for infringement of multiple pate... Actually all of those can be done at the hardware level, but I'm pretty sure that aint the way Apple is doing it, so yeah has to be software.

tumult on Oct 22, 2009 [–]

Software patents don't specifically patent software. They patent a machine implementation of an idea. The hardware you speak of needs some kind of control logic anyway. So it's covered either way.

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