TabletKiosk joins Dell and Motion in accused patent infringement club
Typhoon Touch is making a business out of suing Tablet makers for alleged patent infringements and today have sued TabletKiosk, Electrovaya and Xplore Technologies for touch screen patent infringements. Typhoon Touch had previously sued Dell and Motion Computing for the same violations and so far only Motion has settled the suit.
Typhoon specifically cites Xplore's iX104C series of tablet PCs, Electrovaya's Scribbler SC4000 tablet, and four of TabletKiosk's ruggedized tablets. Typhoon, a Seattle-based firm that creates and acquires patents, has only licensed its patents on portable touch-screen computers to Nova Mobility. The two companies have asked the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas for unspecified damages and an injunction on the sales of the computers Typhoon says are in violation of its patents.
Of course none of the companies named can comment on the active lawsuits. I was surprised to hear that Motion had been accused of violating these touch screen patents as I didn't think they even made touch screen tablets as their multi-touch version of the L1700 was canceled before it ever shipped.
(via CNET)
Perhaps because of the LE1600TS (Touch screen) slate that I'm using right now? :)
Posted by: Donovan Lonh | March 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM