Apple has been winning patent cases left and right against Samsung lately, and a German court has ruled that Samsung violated Apple’s patent that they held on the “rubberbanding” effect that happens on iPhones when users scroll further than the image or menu allows.
Apple's '381 patent describes a rubber banding effect that indicates the end of a scrolling list or document has been hit by animating a stretchy, whimsical snap back effect. In its case against Samsung, Apple's iOS head Scott Forstall testified that Steve Jobs was particularly annoyed to see other companies taking the invention and putting their name on it.
Forstall said the patent was "was just one of the things that Steve said [to Samsung], 'here's something we invented. Don't - don't copy it. Don't steal it.'" Continue Reading
