Apple is being sued again. This time because the iPhone is being promoted as an ebook reader. Evidently a Swiss company applied for a patent:
MONEC believes those advances directly violate its patent, which describes a “light-weight” electronic device with a “touch-screen” LCD-display having the “dimensions such that […] approximately one page of a book can be illustrated at normal size, this display being integrated in a flat, frame-like housing.”
OK, I am now attempting to read books on my iTouch. The Touch does have a touch screen and it is light weight. However, it does not come close to displaying “approximately one page of a book at normal size”.
I wonder if this company has also sued Amazon, the Kindle does not have a touch screen, but it comes closer to displaying a page at normal size.
I also wonder what constitutes “prior art” in this realm. There was the famous Apple Newton which preceded all of these smaller tablet devices now being used for whatever purpose.
