dimitrivanheucke.be » news http://dimitrivanheucke.be/blog you're gonna be remembered for the things you say and do Thu, 20 May 2010 12:36:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 33 Smartphone manufacturers sued! http://dimitrivanheucke.be/blog/2008/01/almost-every-smartphone-manufacturer-sued/ http://dimitrivanheucke.be/blog/2008/01/almost-every-smartphone-manufacturer-sued/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:57:46 +0000 Dimitri http://dimitrivanheucke.be/blog/?p=21 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?

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Also nominated are biofuel, sms as payment method, Nintendo Wii and… the iPhone.
The past 2 years, the portable gps got the first place.

If you want to vote, go to www.standaard.be/productvan2007.

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