RIM patents a QWERTY slider, HTC lawyers perk up their ears

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Mog @ Feb 29th 2008 7:59PM

Actually, the trackball makes all the difference, considering it's in the title of the application. They're not patenting the slide-out QWERTY, they're patenting the slide-out QWERTY with a trackball - which, unless HTC or someone else has made before, is a valid patent, however "painfully familiar" it seems. Your beef seems to lie with our patent system, not with RIM. But IANAL.

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ACEY RIOT @ Mar 6th 2008 2:46AM

actually the trackball makes no difference because if you remember when xerox palo alto research facility got raided for their mouse, the trackball(mouse)APPLICATION was taken with license...therefore the device would run its os under the trackball so the functionality and motion of the track ball would not change under the pretense of a portrait/landscape hybrid application which htc has been making since 2004....so ppppppppppppppppppbbbbbb!(***thats a raspberry***!...it the newest rimphone too....the raspberry....pbbbpbpbpbpbpbbbbbb)

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