The lawsuits keep on piling up for Apple and the iPhone. You may recall, the dispute with Cisco by the “iPhone” name awhile back. soon after the frivolous battery lawsuit last week. Now comes an interesting one concerning the iPhone’s keyboard.

SP Technologies claims they had already developed a “method of providing a user interface for receiving info from a user using a user immutable graphical keyboard linked to an input area.”

Sounds like the iPhone keyboard




alright. But soon after again, I might be uneducated in the world of patents but I’m certain there are tons of patents that could be misinterpreted to resemble the features of the iPhone. But thereupon I saw an image from the patent (shown above). AppleInsider dug up the filing from 2000. It looks a lot like the iPhone. No wonder they are pissed.

[Via CNet]

Original post by Chris

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