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Last tuesday the united states patent and trademark office granted the patent request for a mobile phone with an wireless internet connection, memory card, microporcessor and a display to view data from the internet. This device has to have one of the next options: voice-dialing or (wireless) headset.

As you can see, this includes almost every smartphone on the market today.
One minute after the patent request was granted (00:01, Jan 22nd) Minerva Technologies sued 33 hardware manufacturers for violating the patent on “smartphones”.

Among the sued companies are: Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Apple, HP, LG, Palm and many others.

Way to go USA!

Is my phone (picture) a illegal ripoff now?