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fjtorres · 07-07-2010, 09:29 AM

And the only stealth aspect was that they only filed in one jurisdiction to keep it quiet that they were *thinking* of getting into ebook readers back in 2006. Which is around the time Amazon bought Mobipocket.
Hardly nefarious for a company to want to keep its strategic plans for a market that barely existed secret. Like, who were they trying to blindside? Sony's Libre? The PRS500 didn't even exist when the patent was submitted.
This is just business as usual. Nothing evil here.

07-07-2010, 09:29 AM	#18
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	And the only stealth aspect was that they only filed in one jurisdiction to keep it quiet that they were thinking of getting into ebook readers back in 2006. Which is around the time Amazon bought Mobipocket. Hardly nefarious for a company to want to keep its strategic plans for a market that barely existed secret. Like, who were they trying to blindside? Sony's Libre? The PRS500 didn't even exist when the patent was submitted. This is just business as usual. Nothing evil here.