Firm Seeks To Ban Mobile Companies' Imports To US

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 16, 2009 @01:01PM from the even-silly-patent-claims-are-bigger-in-texas dept.

snydeq writes "Texas-based Saxon Innovations has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission to bar six companies — including Research in Motion, Palm, and Nokia — from importing handheld devices into the US. At issue are three patents that Saxon purchased in July 2007; a patent for keypad monitor with keypad activity-based activation; a patent for an apparatus and method for disabling interrupt marks in processors or the like; and a patent for a device and method for interprocessor communication by using mailboxes owned by processor devices. Saxon, with five employees, purchased about 180 US patents formerly owned by Advanced Micro Devices or Legerity in 2007, according to its ITC complaint."

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You are kidding. right? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-16 14:05 · Score: -1, Troll

Our entire backbone and landlines blow ALL other countries out of the water. Yes, that includes EU. EU could not handle a 9/11 in their system. Ours was jammed, but I talked to ppl off and on all day. Only wireless and VOIP were not getting through. The ONLY place that we are behind is wireless and internet speeds( though we have much higher connectivity rates that other nations ). Our wireless is an absolute abomination and plague on this planet. Looks like something designed by W.