In a latest gaffe, Apple’s patent lawyers file the patent for the iPhone biometric security patent application with the US Patent & Trademark Office, using illustrations of a jailbroken iPhone.
These illustration clearly show the apps only available by jailbreaking the device, such as Installer.app, SMBPrefs, Mobile Terminal, Customize, and the iWood Realize theme from the iSpazio repository.
Filings like this would explain why Apple Inc. keeps getting sued over copyrights and pattent infringement. Their R&D department is not as smart as it is assumed. In fact this only shows Apple ripping off the independent developers and sell it as their own patents. Since Terminal and other applications apear in a patent filing they can later claim ownership, if far in the future they might get sued over it.
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