Germany's Federal Patent Court invalidated an Apple photo-management patent because Steve Jobs showed how the technology worked during a keynote months before the company applied for the patent in Europe.The Munich-based court invalidated the Apple patent Thursday, said court spokeswoman Ariane Mittenberger-Huber in an email Friday. The validity of the patent was contested by the German subsidiary's of both Google-owned Motorola Mobility and Samsung Electronics.The patent, which covers the bounce-back effect in a photo gallery, was partly annulled because the relevant priority date of the application was June 2007, after Jobs demonstrated the technology on stage in January 2007 during the first iPhone keynote, she wrote.The main part of the patent was declared invalid because of prior art, she said. Prior art is typically documentary evidence that ideas or designs for which patent protection is sought are not original."As a matter of principles even an inventor's own public
