RIM files patent for sliding QWERTY keyboard
You may have thought you'd seen phones with slide-out QWERTY keyboards before but RIM is saying it ain't so. Their recent filing “Hybrid Portrait-Landscape Handheld Device With Trackball Navigation and Qwerty Hideaway Keyboard” says once you put a trackball on that device it's a whole new beast. Your tax dollars at work.
(via Blackberry Cool)
> 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?
Posted by: Oliver | February 29, 2008 at 09:55 AM
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.
Posted by: James Kendrick | February 29, 2008 at 10:04 AM
OK, that I agree with wholeheartedly.
Posted by: Oliver | February 29, 2008 at 12:35 PM
If they can sue a certain Finnish Company of the Anti-Christ out of business with that, I'll cheer.
Posted by: Mike Cane | February 29, 2008 at 01:11 PM
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.
Posted by: Mark | February 29, 2008 at 01:23 PM