p2pnet news | Products:- In Mid-February, a Nigerian federal high court, “rejected all the grounds advanced by OLPC ( One Laptop Per Child) in its attempt to have the patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Lancor (Lagos Analysis Corporation) dismissed,” it says.

The court also extended a December 8, 2007, restraining order barring OLPC from distributing its XO laptops in Nigeria.

Now Ade Oyegbola, who says the OLPC laptop stole his designs for a Nigerian keyboard, is pressing his case in US federal court, says the Associated Press.

Lancor claims in a statement it pioneered the development of, “advanced physical multilingual keyboard technology using four shift keys and characters with combining properties to allow for direct access typing of accents, symbols and diacritical marks during regular typing …”

OLPC infringes patent RD8489 and uses “illegally acquired keyboard driver source codes,” it says.

“LANCOR’s technology named Shift2 keyboard technology has been used to create a new class of region specific based keyboards called KONYIN Multilingual Keyboards, which are currently on sale globally.”

OLPC bought two KONYIN Multilingual Keyboard models, “with the express purpose of illegally reverse engineering the source codes for use in OLPC’s XO Laptops,” according to Lancor.

“Separately, OLPC asked a court in Massachusetts, where Lancor also has an office, to clear it of any wrongdoing,” says AP, adding:

“This week, that case was moved to federal court, where Lancor filed a counterclaim alleging violation of trade secrets.”

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Also See:
Lancor - Federal High Court Rejects OLPC’s Application to Dismiss LANCOR’s Patent Infringement Lawsuit, February 14, 2008
Associated Press - Nigerian Patent Suit Still Dogs OLPC, March 13, 2008
statement - Lagos Analysis Corp. (LANCOR) Files Lawsuit Against Nicholas Negroponte and OLPC, November 27, 2007

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