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OLPC Lawsuit-Bringer Has Past Fraud Conviction

Posted by Zonk on from the dodgy-suit-need-to-buy-a-better-one dept.

d0ida writes "The Boston Globe has up an article about LANCOR's lawsuit over the design of the OLPC's keyboard. 'Negroponte said the lawsuit is without merit, because OLPC uses a keyboard programming technique developed in 1996, long before the Nigerian patent was filed. The founder of Lagos Analysis Corp., Ade Oyegbola, was convicted of bank fraud in Boston in 1990 and served a year in prison. Oyegbola insists his Nigerian patent is legitimate and said he plans to file a copyright-infringement lawsuit against OLPC in an American court.'"

2 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Is this the lawsuit application? by pipatron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmmm, this was new to me! Did you write it yourself? Never got any of those! I always get the dead businessman/former(president|king)/husband thing.

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  2. Re:Is this the lawsuit application? by Rick17JJ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I receive quite a few Nigerian email messages every month, I must be on their mailing list. There is actually an online Museum of Nigerian Scam Letters with almost 5,000 examples. Perhaps I should submit a few more examples to their museum. The website classifies those as an "advance fee fraud."

    Nigeriam 4-1-9 Scam Lettery Exhibit