Hi, Maybe EFF's Patent Busting Project can help -
http://w2.eff.org/patent/ Regards On Jan 29, 4:37 am, JP <joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 28, 8:05 am, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote:> You can see > from the article > athttp://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/16/Firm_seeks_to_bar_Nokia_RIM... > > that the worst that a firm can do is try to ban companies importing > > products into the US which may breach a US patent. > > I generally agree with you. You are comparing apples with oranges > however (pun intended). Saxon Innovation and this whole slew of non- > practicing entities (also known as "patent trolls") exist for the sole > purpose of extorting money from legitimate businesses. Apple would > shoot themselves in the foot if they started enforcing the rights > granted through this (and I suppose other) patents. If this happens, > the touch-screen oriented model of user interaction would mostly be > available with their products only. Although Apple's big, they are not > quite big enough that they wouldn't have to rely on having their boat > lifted along with everybody else's as a result of the proliferation of > touch-oriented handsets by virtue of introduction through numerous > vendors. In my humble opinion, anyway. I am looking in particular at > manufacturers in China and "extended workbench" countries which > deliver to growth markets, and which are not be quite there yet as far > as software is concerned. Android should come as an opportunity to > deliver a software platform that supports the touch-oriented model for > their products almost "out of the box". --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
