>I'm not that much into patent laws, but how long can it take for a patent to get accepted/rejected?<br><br>With good lawyers and enough cash, I've heard of companies pulling this out to like 10 years<br><br><br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ulrik Rasmussen</b> <<a href="mailto:openmoko@hwiz.dk">openmoko@hwiz.dk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So, since it's just pending, that means that an implementation of something<br>that works in the same way would only be legal to distribute on "borrowed<br>time"?<br><br>I'm not that much into patent laws, but how long can it take for a patent to
<br>get accepted/rejected?<br><br>Since a method like this seems very effective for all kinds of touch screen<br>based devices, it would kinda cripple the industry if one company was sitting<br>on such a fundamental piece of functionality. What if they chose _not_ to
<br>support the OpenMoko?<br><br>On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:55, Renaissance Man wrote:<br>> Well, actually I was wrong, it's not (yet) patented. Their website<br>> says patent pending:<br>> <a href="http://www.tengo.net/tengo_intellectualproperty.html">
http://www.tengo.net/tengo_intellectualproperty.html</a><br>><br>> I don't know anything about patent law. I've just heard I a lot of<br>> good reports about this way of doing text input.<br>><br>> Renaissance Man
<br>><br>> On 20 Jan 2007, at 2:48 pm, Ulrik Rasmussen wrote:<br>> > That is patented? But how? It's basically a rearrangement of the<br>> > buttons used<br>> > on a regular cell phone.<br>> > Unless there's some feature that I've missed, then I can't see how
<br>> > this could<br>> > be innovative enough to deserve a patent.<br>> ><br>> > -Ulrik<br>> ><br>> > On Saturday 20 January 2007 13:44, Renaissance Man wrote:<br>> >> Would I be right in assuming we won't see anything like Tengo-type
<br>> >> free software text input on OpenMoko, being that it's patented?<br>> >><br>> >> <a href="http://www.tengo.net/">http://www.tengo.net/</a><br>> >><br>> >> I'm also assuming that getting Tengo to add support for OpenMoko is a
<br>> >> trivial matter. But would be nice to have a freedom software version.<br>> >><br>> >> Renaissance Man<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenMoko community mailing list
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