Thread: Amazon Kindle dual-screen e-reader patent granted, Nook potentially in Trouble
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Old 07-06-2010, 07:36 PM   #6
fjtorres
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What's wrong with a company patenting a product they designed?
We're not looking at an over-broad or obvious design and the patent is clearly for the ideas embodied in the Kindle 1 which means it passes all reasonable tests of what an invention is. It's actually a pretty clean and very specific patent for an ebook reader that uses a *small* LCD panel to supplement a larger eink display. So, the Entourage Edge is clearly beyond its scope. Nook and Alex? Not so much.

Amazon got lucky with their phrasing.
Odds are B&N will be hearing from Amazon fairly soon.
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