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Originally Posted by Starson17
Have you compared the date of filing of the patent to Calibre's date? What do you know about their date of invention?
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A quick look turns up--
Patent filed: 28 June, 2007
Calibre began: 31 October, 2006
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The Apple design patent appears to be extremely narrow in scope (as in it would be very hard for the Calibre cover flow to infringe it).
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That's what I'd expect. In order for the patent to be valid at all (it's not like there's any shortage of "animated viewers of icons of digital content"), it'd have to be very specific, and something else that uses the same basic concept with different display settings shouldn't be infringing.