Comments on: RIM files patent for sliding QWERTY keyboard http://gigaom.com/mobile/rim-files-paten/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark http://gigaom.com/mobile/rim-files-paten/#comment-393832 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:23:27 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/rim-files-paten#comment-393832

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.

]]> By: Mike Cane http://gigaom.com/mobile/rim-files-paten/#comment-393833 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:11:58 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/rim-files-paten#comment-393833

If they can sue a certain Finnish Company of the Anti-Christ out of business with that, I’ll cheer.

]]> By: Oliver http://gigaom.com/mobile/rim-files-paten/#comment-393834 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:35:30 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/rim-files-paten#comment-393834

OK, that I agree with wholeheartedly.

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/rim-files-paten/#comment-393835 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:04:13 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/rim-files-paten#comment-393835

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.

]]> By: Oliver http://gigaom.com/mobile/rim-files-paten/#comment-393836 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:55:10 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/rim-files-paten#comment-393836

> 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?

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