Remember all the fun everyone had watching Palm and Apple’s legal wordplay regarding multitouch patents? If you missed it, Apple delivered a very thinly veiled threat to Palm, flouting how it had touch-sensitive intellectual rights up the wazoo to protect itself from the competition. Apple, though, may be due for a heaping helping of humble pie, as it’s now on the receiving end of a lawsuit from Elan Microelectronics claiming infringement on two patents — both involving multitouch. Elan , best known for its keypads found in Eee PCs everywhere (along with some other diversions ), won a court injunction against Synaptics for infringement on one of those patents, and seems like it may actually have a shot of shaking down the house of Jobs. It’s also seeking an injunction

against Apple to prevent it from selling the MacBook, iPhone, and iPod Touch until everything gets legally sorted. That seems like a long-shot, but anything could happen. Oh, and Palm corporate officers, try not to look too giddy today, yeah? A Gadget Zone– Apple sued over touch-screen rights A Gadget Zone– Injunction quote [Warning: requires subscription] Filed under: Cellphones , Laptops , Portable Audio , Portable Video Elan turns the tables on Apple, sues for multitouch patent infringement originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:57:00 EST. Gadgets.A Gadget Zone | A Gadget Zone | A Gadget Zone Here is the original post:  Elan turns the tables on Apple, sues for multitouch patent infringement

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