It’s important to make the distinction between utility patents and design patents like this one, surely? Utility patents are for new, ingenious, useful inventions. A design patent, not unlike the iPhone rounded corners, are for the ornamental design of a functional item. No one, I think, would qualify a UI slider as the least bit new or ingenious.
(Also, Corel? Really? Seems downright spiteful.)
If anyone is looking for prior art, check out the GUI for the SGI Indigo Magic Desktop (1995).
There was a “wheel” widget for scaling the size of the icons within the display.
heheh. “…the only mathematical constructs of which Microsoft may not be able to
claim ownership are infinity and transcendental numbers like pi.
Microsoft lawyers are expected to file liens on infinity and pi this
week.”
this is a brilliant innovation that allows us to move beyond just thumbs up, thumbs down type of positive/negative ratings. In this sliding version when you slide to the left you increase the negativity of your rating, and when you slide to the right you increase positivity, using this method we will be able to get extremely granular user ratings of pictures of cats.
Do this. Please.
I nominate Joyful Inhumans to describe the users.
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