Legal ramifications from the Apple / Samsung verdict

Question

Hey All,So if you're following the news you might have seen the jury award Apple $1 billion dollars for patent infringment. One part of this infringment was interface design copying. Specifically how the scrolling window 'bounces' when it reaches the end of the screen.Is anyone else concerned that this set a bad precident for interface design? As a UX person I've come up with similar functionality for websites before. I was hoping to be able to modify my scrolling HBox widget, I spent a week architecting, so it has inertia and bounces back upon the end of the scroll. Now I'm worried that I might be sued by Apple for simply taking previous source code I built way back before the iPhone came out and packaging it into mobile.Any thoughts on this?

Applauz78 · Answer

I think that from Apple's standpoint it is more of an OS level thing. They don't want other mobile operating systems including this functionality at the OS level.

Having that functionality in an iOS app isn't a big deal. If you use any of the native iOS elements (UIWebView, etc) you will get thatg bounce back effect by default.... so If you've built that in to your app for iOS you should be fine.

Now ... having your app do that on Android, BlackBerry10, PlayBook, Windows, etc etc might be another story. ... I highly doubt it will be a problem.. but you never know with Apple. They've just won a huge case... You better believe Apple is going after Google next!

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