OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

The peril of patents on software...

http://lwn.net/Articles/260053/

"A company called Lagos Analysis Corporation has sent out a press 
release announcing a patent infringement lawsuit against the One Laptop 
Per Child project. "The patent infringement lawsuit was filed on 
November 22nd, 2007 as a result of OLPC's willful infringement of 
LANCOR's Nigeria Registered Design Patent #RD8489 and illegal reverse 
engineering of its keyboard driver source codes for use in the XO 
Laptops." The patent text is hard to find, but it seems to relate to the 
design of keyboards which facilitate the typing of text in multiple 
languages."

Rahul