an obscure Swedish touchscreen maker called Neonode
Smartphone Patents: The Never-Ending War - WSJ.com
Jisses. Ska Neonode, frid över dess minne, komma att spela roll i den här patentstriden?
Neonode declined to comment. But in a recent Apple-Samsung battle over slide-to-unlock in the Netherlands, Samsung held up Neonode designs as examples of “prior art,” or evidence that Apple’s patents on slide-to-unlock should never have been granted in the first place because someone else had actually beaten Apple to the idea.
Spännande. Men om patent öht finns inte mycket spännande. Bjuder på ett citat till, själva slutklämmen i artikeln
“When you have companies spending hundreds of millions in litigation, something is seriously wrong with our patent system,” said Michael Carrier, a professor at Rutgers School of Law in Camden, N.J. “You’ve got to wonder whether it’s doing more harm than good,” he added.
‘nuff said.