I think if we realize it, Google and their lawyers definitely realize it.

Anyway, I don't think I said anywhere above that Apple somehow has a patent on multi-touch in general. I referred to Apple's patents (plural), they have patents on different gestures and techniques. I was already saying, what you're saying.

Also, in my post that you were quoting and responding to, I specifically pointed out that Apple actually doesn't have a patent on pinch-and-zoom (and cited a source to this end). So I'm not sure why you're referring to Apple as having a patent on pinching, as a reponse to my post talking about how they don't. That's part of the oddness of this whole thing. Most of the noise from Apple is about pinch-and-zoom, but that's actually one of the things that they don't even seem to have a bogus patent on.

In the end it seems like Apple has a lot of patents on things having to do with multi-touch (which are probably bogus), but nobody is necessarily copying those particular things. Still Apple is trying to intimidate people into thinking they somehow just own multi-touch in general. Except it doesn't seem like any handset manufacturer is actually intimidated.