Snapchat Could Be Stripped Of Valuable “Tap-And-Hold For Video” Patent

Published August 14, 2014

Snapchat has quietly been embroiled in an intellectual property interference proceeding that could revoke its lucrative patent for a design trick now widely copied by Facebook, Google and more.
Snapchat filed for a patent on the ability to tap and hold a smartphone camera’s shutter button to record a video on August 8th, 2012, while another company called Mojo Media filed for a nearly… Read More