Apple has a distinctive feature from the Galaxy Note series patented before Samsung he used. It is going to be the circular menu that appears when Note-users of the S-Pen just above the screen. Apple now has a patent on that interface idea.
Apple has the patent, first applied for OS X devices and now also for iOS devices, notes Patently Apple. The images in the patent show a menu that looks a lot like the Air Command feature, which Samsung first showed the Galaxy Note 3, with a central element in the middle, and several features around it, which the user can select the inputmiddel dragging.
Although Samsung the feature is already one year used, Apple has its first patent applications for years ago filed in Europe and South Korea. Thus, Apple is also not the first with the idea: IBM has been around for much longer patent on such a menu. Approximately at the same time, Apple also has Microsoft already once such a system is patented.
Apple and Samsung are already together for years legally in the clinch; Apple is claiming that Samsung design elements and functions of copying, while Samsung says that Apple without license certain technologies are applied. Although the companies battle formerly in dozens of countries to make, there are now only business in the United States.
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