Palm/3Com Graffiti A Patent Infringement on Xerox 220
Olmy's Jart writes "According to this article on money.cnn.com, a judge has ruled that graffiti, the one stroke shorthand used on Palm Pilots, infringes a Xerox patent for "unistrokes". Really light on details and no links to betters sites, unfortunately." MSNBC also has the story.
Is someone still getting royalties on keyboards? (Score:2, Funny)
Great Loud Beeping Sound From Redmond (Score:3, Funny)
Meanwhile, Bill Gates of Microsoft had this to say on the subject. "Ehhx-cellent..."
Re:Patents are the death of IP (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and recessions have been patented. By the New York Stock Exchange, I think.
Artificial constructs are patented.
There's a copyright on stifling.
Finger-pointing's patented.
Corrupt companies? Bought politicians? Yep, both patented. (Patent #666 by "Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Baal, LLC.")
And I think hurting is covered by the DMCA.
Face it, we're screwed.
Aww, dammit! Screwing's been patented!
Re:In a related story... (Score:2, Funny)
Thank you for posting that. My favorite quote: The product was right. The price was right. The time was right. The name became right - BIC - short, simple, attention-getting, in any language. A simple, yet effective, award-winning advertising campaign launched the new BIC pen in 1949, with the slogan (in French), "It runs, It runs. The BIC ballpoint."
As apposed to the earlier propositions of "Run Bich, run!" and "Write my name, Bich!"
Re:How about prior art of FIFTY YEARS? (Score:3, Funny)
making SUCH a system WORK smoothly
And I thought you were using Grafitti to post :-)
Silly (Score:3, Funny)
Xerox the "Copier" company sues? (Score:3, Funny)
I thought Xerox liked copying...
Unistroke Prior Art: Katakana, Cuneiform (Score:2, Funny)
And Mesopotamia...