Why do patents always have to look like they were scribbled down during a monthly team meeting? If recent history is anything to go by though, creating patents is a normal part of a hi-tech business so can someone by these guys a decent CAD machine please? In the last two days I’ve seen both Samsung and Nokia patents being aired on the Internet. The Samsung patent shows two devices. One of which looks like our UMPC-X (and the HTC Shift!) the other looks like some sort of games pad.
Samsung Vs UMPCPortal! More info on the Samsung patents at Unwiredview.
Then today, we saw the Nokia patent at Gizmodo (source: Patent Monkey) which according to the patent details, was filed in 2002! My vote goes to UMPC-X. Which reminds me. I spoke to the designer again and apparently they are working on a slightly modified version of UMPC-X now. I’ll see if I can tease them into sending me a picture without mentioning the letters H, T or C.
