Palm/3Com Graffiti A Patent Infringement on Xerox

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.

Comments

Is someone still getting royalties on keyboards?

[TurboDog99]

What a fucking joke. I think I'll patent typing drunk while I'm at it.

Great Loud Beeping Sound From Redmond

[ackthpt]

A great loud beeping sound could be heard all over the world today, eminating from Redmond, Washington, USA, as Windows CE backed into another victory. When asked what this means for consumers, Ralph Nader had this to say, "Why this just plain sucks farts from a dead pigeon's ass!"

Meanwhile, Bill Gates of Microsoft had this to say on the subject. "Ehhx-cellent..."

Re:Patents are the death of IP

[Ether Trogg]

Sorry, but the strangling of innovation by the overuse of patents is patented.

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...

[KILNA]

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?

[sjames]

making SUCH a system WORK smoothly

And I thought you were using Grafitti to post :-)

Silly

[SkewlD00d]

Someone should sue Xerox for patenting prior art known as "short-hand."

Xerox the "Copier" company sues?

[acomj]

Considering Xerox made a lot of money on machines designed to copy things...

I thought Xerox liked copying...

Unistroke Prior Art: Katakana, Cuneiform

[drxyzzy]

Several characters of Katakana are, um, unistroke. Let's sue Japan.

And Mesopotamia...