Apple has confirmed that they are not stealing FutureTap's app design in an email to the company.
The Internet erupted last week over an Apple patent which figured a diagram of FutureTap's WhereTo? app. After contacting Apple here is the reply from Anand Sethuraman, Senior Patent Counsel at Apple.
As discussed, Apple is contemplating steps to attribute the screenshot in the patent application to FutureTap. The patent application in question does not claim as inventive the pictured user interface nor the general concept of an integrated travel services application. We appreciate your taking time out to discuss the matter and will keep you updated.
FutureTap writes, "So the use of the Where To? screenshot is not an offense in any way but merely an illustration that apps such as Where To? could make use of the invention. We feel honored over this mention and appreciate that Apple is looking into a proper attribution of the screenshot. In retrospective, I can say we wouldn‘t ever have considered the story alarming had the screenshot included a short attribution notice."
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The Internet erupted last week over an Apple patent which figured a diagram of FutureTap's WhereTo? app. After contacting Apple here is the reply from Anand Sethuraman, Senior Patent Counsel at Apple.
As discussed, Apple is contemplating steps to attribute the screenshot in the patent application to FutureTap. The patent application in question does not claim as inventive the pictured user interface nor the general concept of an integrated travel services application. We appreciate your taking time out to discuss the matter and will keep you updated.
FutureTap writes, "So the use of the Where To? screenshot is not an offense in any way but merely an illustration that apps such as Where To? could make use of the invention. We feel honored over this mention and appreciate that Apple is looking into a proper attribution of the screenshot. In retrospective, I can say we wouldn‘t ever have considered the story alarming had the screenshot included a short attribution notice."
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