uk.reuters.com - 1/23/2009
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By Sinead Carew NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Some Palm Inc (PALM.O: Quote , Profile , Research ) investors are worried that its highly anticipated new phone, the Pre, may face a legal challenge from Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote , Profile , Research ) over touch-screen technology. Apple Chief ...
digitaldaily.allthingsd.com - 1/23/2009
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We like competition, as long as they don’t
rip off our IP, and if they do, we’re...
going to go after anybody that does … We will not stand for having our IP ripped off and we’ll use whatever weapons we have at our disposal [to ...
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Palm to Apple: Bring It
obsessable.com - 1/23/2009
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Things heat up as a Palm spokesperson responds
to Apple COO Tim Cook's statements by stating: "If...
faced with legal action, we are confident that we have the tools necessary to defend ourselves." Following upon Apple's recent earnings report where Apple COO Tim Cook ..
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Palm responds to Apple's veiled legal threats regarding ...
pcmag.com - 1/22/2009
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Apple review, Apple commentary, Apple news... Everything Apple
Apple executives hinted Wednesday that the company might legally...
contest the multitouch technology found within the Palm Pre. During the waning minutes of a conference call announcing the ...
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Will Apple Sue Palm Over the Pre? - News and Analysis by ...
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Palm to Apple: We'll "vigorously" defend our IP, too
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... at this month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with a multi-touch interface that lets users pinch their fingers together and spread them apart on the screen to navigate websites. It appears Apple has targeted that aspect of Palm's yet-unreleased Pre, which has a slide-out keyboard and a new operating system called webOS. "Apple was not the first to do multi-touch," Palm spokeswoman Lynn Fox told Reuters. She argued that multi-touch has been around for more than 20 years . "Palm has been building its own intellectual property portfolio for 15 years, and we will ...
Your multitouch update: Apple: Grr. Palm: GRR.
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... its iPhone -- specifically, to Palm and its hotly anticipated Pre, which uses certain multitouch-style gestures on the touchscreen part of the smartphone's interface. "I don't want to talk about any particular company," said COO Tim Cook at the time. "However, we will not stand for having our IP ripped off. And we will use whatever weapons we have at our disposal." One of the weapons is talk itself, and Cook's remarks caused a bit of a flutter in Palm's stock price on Thursday. In a e-mail exchange with Reuters' Sinead Carew, Palm spokesperson Lynn Fox said that "Palm has ...
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