Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook IP

bth writes to let us know that Barnes & Noble has been sued by a company called Spring Design, which alleges that the recently announced Nook e-book reader infringes its intellectual property. This isn't a patent troll kind of situation; rather, the claim is misappropriation of trade secrets. Spring Design claims that they have been developing a dual-screen, Android-based e-book reader since 2006, filing patents all the while; and that they showed pretty much everything to Barnes & Noble in the expectation of working together with them to bring their reader to market.

Ah

[WindBourne]

So the nook is the kindle killer, while Spring is the BN killer. Makes sense to me.
So what good is a hook to a nook, if the nook makes cannot read the future.
They can not do a cookbook on a nook, since they just got the hook. (apologies).

Re:Ah

[Locke2005]

Been reading to your 4 year old a lot lately? Maybe a little too much?

Re:Ah

[jayspec462]

I'm currently submitting a patent application for the use of a Zans to open cans.

Re:The Alex (What B&N ripped off)

[Bacon Bits]

Shouldn't you also insist that your vacuum cleaner be user programmable or you will refuse to buy it?

I dunno, imagine the suction a vacuum cleaner would have if it was multi-booting Vista, Windows ME, and MS-DOS 4.

Re:I'm shocked!

[Hognoxious]

Yeah but Karchofaniz totally pwned Beethoven and all the Bachs. As for Mozart, beh - too many notes.

Re:I'm shocked!

[CannonballHead]

I like how my previous post was overrated, hehe..

I can't tell if you're joking - I have no idea what or who "Karchofaniz" is... :P

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[Anonymous Coward]

I love that the ad I got for this article on slashdot was for the B&N nook.

Re:I'm shocked!

[Anonymous Coward]

did you mean Cacofonix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacofonix#Cacofonix [wikipedia.org]

Re:The Alex (What B&N ripped off)

[steelfood]

But if it ran Linux, would it still suck?

Wait a minute...