RIM files patent for sliding QWERTY keyboard
You may have thought you’d seen phones with slide-out QWERTY keyboards before but RIM is saying it ain’t so. Their recent filing “Hybrid Portrait-Landscape Handheld Device With Trackball Navigation and Qwerty Hideaway Keyboard” says once you put a trackball on that device it’s a whole new beast. Your tax dollars at work.
(via Blackberry Cool)
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> Your tax dollars at work.
Filing patent applications is expensive. Are you saying the costs of processing that application exceed the fees charged by the government?
No, I’m saying that our patent system is broken if you can keep filing patents for stuff already in production for years and years.
OK, that I agree with wholeheartedly.
If they can sue a certain Finnish Company of the Anti-Christ out of business with that, I’ll cheer.
Oh please…if it was HTC filing the same thing, you’d probably be all for it. But since it’s RIM, oh what a terrible waste.