Sprint and Samsung sued for touch-screen flip phone?

There are wack lawsuits, and there are wack lawsuits, but what the hell do private citizens John and Christina King
think they’re suing Sprint and Samsung for? Well, according to the Inq, it’s apparently over the i500 — yes, they may
have two patents in the USPTO system filed in December of 2002 for a “Foldable wireless communication device
functioning as a cellular telephone and a personal digital assistant” (aka a flip-smartphone) and a “Cellular telephone
having a touch screen user interface” (aka every Palm and Pocket PC phone ever, and some UIQ and Symbian devices), but
we’re at a loss for what Sprint’s got to do with this. And let’s not even talk about the fact that the i500 got FCC
approval in August of 2002, months before their patents were filed — not to mention prior art like the Kyocera PDQ (a
folding, touchscreen smartphone from way the hell back). Man, send these fools packing, Sprint n’ Samsung, we could
care less how hard up these two clowns are for Christmas money this year.


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