The book written establishes a copyright, not a patent.
Bringing this back to technology with an example: Palm synthesized the smart phone and color LCD screen in ~2004. I'm pretty glad all smartphones have color screens today.
Bringing this back to technology with an example: Palm synthesized the smart phone and color LCD screen in ~2004. I'm pretty glad all smartphones have color screens today.
> If there was no innovation in bringing multi-touch to
> smart phones, why wasn't everyone doing it in 2007 when
> the iPhone was first released?
For starters, because Apple bought the company that invented
multi-touch, therefore controlled the rights to
the technology.