If you build a handheld device with a thumbwheel to control menu selection, you’re in violation of newly issued US Patent 6,452,588?
If you build a handheld e-mail device with a keyboard optimized for use by the thumbs, you’re in violation of newly issued US Patent 6,452,588?
If you build a keyboard for your handheld with oval or oblong keys, mounted at complementary angles to be used by the thumbs, you’re in violation of newly issued US Patent 6,452,588?
Did you know that Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the Blackberry, has just been handed a patent by the chowderheads US PTO that gives it carte blanche to sue the snot out of its competitors for doing straightforward, common-sensical things?
Well, you do now.
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