GSlusher

Discovery Hits Amazon with Infringement Suit Over Kindle

raytayzmd wrote: "well, uhh -- a laptop is "book-shaped"...so are netbooks...so, in other words, Discovery COULD claim to own a patent on any method of electronically transferring text and graphics to laptops and netbooks??"

I'm not an attorney, but, since laptops were around before the patent was filed, the patent couldn't cover them. (I bought my first Mac, a PowerBook 100, in 1992--and it was being phased out at the time.)

I expect that the more important parts of the patent may be those relating to the distribution system.