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Palm Kills Off Graffiti

Posted by Hemos on from the the-end-of-the-circles dept.

Ed writes "PalmSource, the company that makes the Palm OS, has decided to stop using Graffiti for text input in all future versions of its operating system. Instead, it will switch to using a version of CIC's Jot recognition system, which will be called Graffiti 2. PalmSource was forced to make this move after losing a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Xerox. Jot is already used by the Pocket PC operating system. You can read more about it on Brighthand."

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  1. Xerox has the patent? by sunspot42 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    According to the article:

    In April 1997, Xerox sued Palm, claiming that Graffiti was essentially derived from its patented Unistrokes technology.

    That's really odd. I thought Pee Wee Herman had the patent on Unistrokes.