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note however the filing date: August 28, 2006
I'm just trying to remember when the first sliding-keyboard phone came out, but I'm sure it was before that wasn't it? In the dark recesses of my brain I remember the Sharp Zaurus having a sliding keyboard, and that was what, 2001?
They will have a hard time proving novelty at that point in time (2006), particularly given that Nokia filed a patent application for a phone with a hideaway landscape keyboard on May 3 3006 (US Patent Application No. 20070259702).
They have just learned from their stoush with NTP how profitably it can be to lodge a speculative patent application
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