Intellectual Property Law

OLPC Tells Nigerian Court: We Don't Use LANCOR's Keyboard

By Pamela Jones et al.

And if you want to know what really happened between Intel and OLPC, I suggest you read this interview with Nicholas Negroponte in Fortune. Here's the meat of it:

Q: But in the end they quit?
Negroponte: They were on probation. They had violated very serious things. If you're in school and you are on probation for very serious misdemeanors you can say you quit but ....

I'll show you the filings in the Nigerian case, but you can sum them up like this: OLPC doesn't use LANCOR's keyboard, its keyboards are based on public domain techniques, and the plaintiffs misled the court in a number of particulars to get an injunction it doesn't deserve. OLPC asks that the case be tossed, describing it as "wholly incompetent, vexatious and a gross abuse of the process of court".

Full post as published by Groklaw on January 04, 2008 (boomark / email).