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In a piece this morning titled "No, Apple doesn't own the mobile 'page turn,'" CBS Moneywatch's Erik Sherman says that Bilton got it wrong, noting the difference between utility patents and design patents, surmising, essentially, that Apple only owns the specific look of its page turn, not the idea of the digital page turn. He points out that Apple referenced numerous previous patents on the technology in its patent application:
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