Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected another one of Apple’s patents, this one being the “pinch to zoom” patent (7,844,915). Legally speaking, it is a patent that covers a programming interface that can determine whether one finger is scrolling or a different number of fingers perform another action. In English, it is a patent that determines whether or not one finger is moving on the screen or multiple fingers are moving on the screen.
This, along with the bounce-back patent being temporarily invalidated, may cause some ripples in the Samsung v. Apple trial, but because nothing is necessarily concrete, I wouldn’t be holding my breath.