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Apple slowly gaining patents to fight its war of attrition with Android

By Chris Foresman, Dec. 30, 2011.

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Apple was recently awarded a patent related to multitouch input processing, which the Internet immediately characterized as a “key multitouch patent” that Apple could use to target Android handset makers. While the patent does describe a useful—and perhaps even important—part of Apple’s multitouch technology, it certainly isn’t a “thermonuclear” option that Apple could use to wipe out its smartphone competition.

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