PalmOne overturns Xerox Graffiti patent

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By Tony Smith
Published Monday 24th May 2004 09:58 GMT
A Xerox pen-based text-entry system patent - ownership of which forced Palm
to ditch its Graffiti character-input technology - is invalid, a US District
Court judge has ruled.

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Xerox may yet appeal against the decision, primarily by attempting to show
the prior art doesn't cover as much of the technology as PalmOne reckons it
does.
In any case, the decision comes to late for those of us used to Graffiti 1
and have problems adapting to Graffiti 2. Having made the transition,
PalmOne is unlikely to go back to the initial implementation.

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Full story at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/24/palm_vs_xerox/

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Harold Fuchs
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grilla wrote:
> Count me as one of those that absolutely abhors graffiti 2.

Apologies for the multiple post. I blame Windows but it was really my fault
;-)

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Harold Fuchs
Time files like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

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On Mon, 31 May 2004 11:11:41 -0400, William P.N. Smith wrote:

>"Harold" <harold@wolfeden.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>PalmOne is unlikely to go back to the initial implementation.
>
>Well, given how easy it is to swap them around, I'd think they'd make
>the option available to select which one you want. Of course, that's
>going to require the appeals process to go the "right" way...

How do you swap them around. I hear it is posible but have yet to
figure out how.
Thank you
Steve

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On Mon, 31 May 2004 19:08:03 GMT, Jim Anderson
<fro2750@frontiernet.my_finger.net> wrote:

>PalmInfocenter - Howto Replace Graffiti 2 with Original Graffiti
><http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5830>
>Get the files here;
><http://users.wpi.edu/~ahecht/palm.html>

However, the instructions are for OS 5, not for OS4 devices such as my
PalmPhone. Anyone made it work with OS4?


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