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imunfair t1_j1z28ct wrote

I hate patent trolls. Silly user interface stuff like this shouldn't even be patentable, much less by some company that comes out of nowhere and claims that everyone using it owes them money.

They should let you trademark a look and feel of your brand, but not patent a software UI feature, that's not an invention or anything worthy of long-term moat protection no matter how much programmers might want it to be.

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jollyjonte OP t1_j1z34kk wrote

Kinda agree, the issue was (in my understanding of this case) that Neonode and Samsung had a deal where they (Samsung) could use this feature based on the actual patent.

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