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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<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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 <\/i>to sue the snot out of its competitors for doing straightforward, common-sensical things?<\/p>\n

Well, you do now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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? 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