OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

Posted Nov 28, 2007 7:11 UTC (Wed) by dwaynebailey (guest, #49311)
In reply to: OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria by andrewc
Parent article: OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

Interesting info. It seems then that they are basing this entirely on the fact that OLPC bought 2 of their keyboards.

Since OLPC doesn't seem to use the Shift2 concept, although its hard to see how you could defend that as novel since AltGr has existed for ages, then I'm at a loss as to how they could motivate this. I guess mostly its motivated by the potential loss of income since everyone will now see a keyboard capable of doing multiple languages, which is the main selling point on the Konyin keyboard.

Will they claim dead keys and such like as part of their design?

I guess the fact that I've made a South African multilingual keyboard, that uses combining characters and AltGr means I'm also an infringer? I think not.

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"It seems then that they are basing this entirely on the fact that OLPC bought 2 of their
keyboards." and then chose not to use them.  Sounds like SCO vs AutoZone, suing former
customers because they are not current customers.