http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch
"One of the first implementations of multi-touch technology was developed at CERN in 1977"
"Apple Inc. lists "Multi-Touch" on their page of trademarks,[16] however, this was only added some time after October 2007,[17] and Apple was awarded a patent covering multitouch on 20 January 2009,[18]."
"Various companies expanded upon these inventions in the beginning of the twenty-first century. Mainstream exposure to multi-touch technology occurred in 2007 when the iPhone gained popularity, with Apple falsely stating they 'invented multi touch' as part of the iPhone announcement[12], however both the function and the term predate the announcement or patent requests. Publication and demonstration using the term Multi-touch by Jefferson Y. Han in 2005 predates these"
Nu är uspto.gov inte särskilt lättläst (det är ju trots allt en statlig sida...) men jag har lyckats hitta ett trademark på multi-touch (inte multitouch).
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4003:uqlm08.2.1
Och ett patent på "Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics "
Den nogranna läsaren kanske lägger märke till att Jobs står med som inventor ( :

).
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN/7479949
Men den första iphonen lanserades långt innan January 20, 2009.
Så vi kan dra slutsatsen att Apple inte har kommit på begreppet multitouch. De har dock ett trademark på multi-touch och att deras påståenden vid iphones lansering var felaktiga.
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