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Submitted by bizwriter on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @08:39AM

bizwriter writes "Apple has had quite a week in patents for the iPhone, and it's only Tuesday. First was the victory at the International Trade Commission over HTC. And now there's a shiny new patent on switching to an app during a live phone call. There may be non-infringing ways of doing something similar, but they probably will be clumsy in comparison."
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by Lexx Greatrex (1160847) * writes:

The IBM Simon was a touch screen smartphone with features identical to those claimed in this patent. It was first announced in 1992. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon [wikipedia.org]

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