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		hendrik-xdest on July 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two App... Imho the best example for this is that the Motorola Droid comes with multi-touch features in Europe, as opposed to the Droid of all countries were Apple holds the multi-touch patent.

18pfsmt on July 26, 2011 [–]

I don't know about Europe, but in the US "Droid" refers, specifically, to an Android device offered by Verizon; and, it is an exclusively licensed trademark by them to use in this context by Lucas.

untog on July 26, 2011 | [–]

IIRC, it was called the Motorola Milestone in Europe. Exactly the same phone, though.

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