Samsung and RIM infringed the patent of emoticons

Strangely, this time not to accuse Apple Samsung or another company for infringement of its patents, but it varies Holdings. That company, in fact, possess a patent that would cover the emoticons and the way in which they are to be selected by the user.

The patent specification Varies Holdings as follows: "This concept allows the user to select emoticons from a menu of options rather than typing all the characters one at a time." So, in our opinion, not only Samsung and RIM would infringe the patent, but with them, the vast majority of companies. After the jump, a picture of the patent.

 The Samsung devices are indicted by Various Holdings Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus S, and other devices that do not have in Italy, namely Samsung Acclaim, Samsung Captivate, Samsung Epic 4G and Samsung Transform. As for RIM BlackBerry devices are instead the Bold, BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry Storm.

The patent was filed in 2005 and was later approved in 2007 but, meanwhile, varies Holdings was incorporated in other companies, a reality that will not affect the final decision of the judges on the patent.

You can agree or not, the war on patents not yet see an end, although in this case seems to be rather a pretext by VH to scrounge money from Samsung and RIM. To be tax, however, the patent would be violated, then the final decision lies with the judges of the case.

Samsung and RIM will be pardoned or the two companies will have to shell out money to hush up the affair and have to withdraw the charge varies Holdings of patent infringement, given the large number of devices involved?