http://t.co/9Thc4zv

techradar article today:

Apple has been granted a patent relating to the capacitive touchscreen it introduced on the original iPhone after three years of deliberation.
The patent basically gives Apple rights over the multitouch display and gestures used on its iPhone, iPad and iPod products.
That means that manufacturers of rival touchscreen products should probably put their lawyers on speed dial, as Apple is likely to come after them for licensing fees or pursue them on the basis of copyright infringement.
source pcmag article http://t.co/UeMfoGR

Some three-and-a-half years after filing for a patent on the iPhone, Apple on Tuesday was awarded U.S. patent number 7,966,578 for "[a] computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display, [that] comprises displaying a portion of page content, including a frame displaying a portion of frame content and also including other content of the page, on the touch screen display."
actual patent is here:

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...S=PN/7,966,578

so I guess pinch to zoom will no longer be on any other device?