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Originally Posted by Graham
Not exact at all. Here's the one line claim:
"CLAIM The ornamental design for a display screen or portion thereof with animated-graphical user interface, as shown and described."
The description is just those three images and the sentences as described in the report.
It is incredibly vague, includes no code, or indeed animation, just those three intermediate states.
If it is to be argued that it would apply to any animation that passed precisely through those states then it's so narrow it's meaningless
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This suggests that regardless of the way it's implemented, or the speed of the animation, the patent claims it.
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If it has those three exact stages, yes.
Otherwise no.