<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well... I had some prior art with the "Hang Dial" phone designed by me and designer Sean Thomas. Lemme dig around for the artwork.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 4, 2007, at 5:43 AM, Frederic Kettelhoit wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hello together,<BR><BR>there is one patent application called "Backside Interface for Hand-Held devices" with the patent number 20070103454. It has been published on 10th May 2007 and isn't granted yet. Does anyone know how long such a process might last? And are there realistic chances that this patent will be granted? Because I think it would also be pretty cool for OpenMoko phones. <BR><BR><A href="http://www.latestpatents.com/category/apple/feed/">http://www.latestpatents.com/category/apple/feed/</A><BR><A href="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20070103454.PGNR.&OS=DN/20070103454RS=DN/20070103454"> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20070103454.PGNR.&OS=DN/20070103454RS=DN/20070103454 </A><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OpenMoko community mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community">http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>