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Old 11-29-2007, 06:20 AM   #1
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LXer: Nigerian Patent Infringement Lawsuit: Scam or Shame?


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Now I'm not quite sure what to make of this at the moment but a United States-based Nigerian-owned company has sued OLPC for an alleged patent infringement about multilingual keyboard technology. As MarketWire.com puts it: "The patent infringement lawsuit was filed on November 22nd, 2007 as a result of OLPC's willful infringement of LANCOR's Nigeria Registered Design Patent # RD8489 and illegal reverse engineering of its keyboard driver source codes for use in the XO Laptops."

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Old 11-29-2007, 04:39 PM   #2
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What rubbish.
Nigeria is normally synonymous with 419 scams...this doesn't look any different.
 
  


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