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Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook IP

Posted by kdawson on from the first-out-the-gate dept.

bth writes to let us know that Barnes & Noble has been sued by a company called Spring Design, which alleges that the recently announced Nook e-book reader infringes its intellectual property. This isn't a patent troll kind of situation; rather, the claim is misappropriation of trade secrets. Spring Design claims that they have been developing a dual-screen, Android-based e-book reader since 2006, filing patents all the while; and that they showed pretty much everything to Barnes & Noble in the expectation of working together with them to bring their reader to market.

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  1. Ah by WindBourne · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the nook is the kindle killer, while Spring is the BN killer. Makes sense to me.
    So what good is a hook to a nook, if the nook makes cannot read the future.
    They can not do a cookbook on a nook, since they just got the hook. (apologies).

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    1. Re:Ah by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Been reading to your 4 year old a lot lately? Maybe a little too much?

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    2. Re:Ah by jayspec462 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm currently submitting a patent application for the use of a Zans to open cans.

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  2. Re:The Alex (What B&N ripped off) by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't you also insist that your vacuum cleaner be user programmable or you will refuse to buy it?

    I dunno, imagine the suction a vacuum cleaner would have if it was multi-booting Vista, Windows ME, and MS-DOS 4.

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  3. Re:I'm shocked! by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah but Karchofaniz totally pwned Beethoven and all the Bachs. As for Mozart, beh - too many notes.

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  4. Re:I'm shocked! by CannonballHead · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like how my previous post was overrated, hehe..

    I can't tell if you're joking - I have no idea what or who "Karchofaniz" is... :P

  5. Adsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I love that the ad I got for this article on slashdot was for the B&N nook.

  6. Re:I'm shocked! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    did you mean Cacofonix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacofonix#Cacofonix

  7. Re:The Alex (What B&N ripped off) by steelfood · · Score: 2, Funny

    But if it ran Linux, would it still suck?

    Wait a minute...

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