Samsung, Research In Motion Sued For Making It Easy To Use Emoticons (Techdirt)
All the way back in 2001, we wrote about how the brilliant satirists at
Despair Inc. successfully trademarked and announced that they planned to
sue 7 million internet users for violating the trademark. The actual
announcement was pretty funny — even though not everyone got the joke. In
2006, we also had a story that mentioned a whole bunch of patents and patent
applications related to emoticons.
It appears that one of those is now being used in a lawsuit against Samsung
and RIM for having the gall to create a button that makes it easy to pick an
emoticon without typing it in. The patent in question (US Patent 7,167,731)
really is for having a button that lets you pick emoticons. How this is
possibly patentable is beyond me. But, for some reason, examiner Lee Nguyen
thought it was somehow non-obvious. The patent was originally assigned to
Wildseed, a mobile accessories firm that AOL bought in 2005. The patent itself
then went to Varia Mobil, who moved it to Varia Holdings to Varia and back to
Varia Holdings. It’s Varia Holdings bringing the lawsuit. Varia appears to
just be a trolling operation (of …
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