The lawsuits keep on piling up for Apple and the iPhone. You may recall, the dispute with Cisco over the “iPhone” name awhile back. Then the frivolous battery lawsuit last week. Now comes an interesting one concerning the iPhone’s keyboard.

SP Technologies claims they had already developed a “method of providing a user interface for receiving information from a user using a user immutable graphical keyboard linked to an input area.”

Sounds like the iPhone keyboard alright. But then again, I might be uneducated in the world of patents but I’m sure there are tons of patents that could be misinterpreted to resemble the features of the iPhone. But then I saw an image from the patent (shown above). AppleInsider dug up the filing from 2000. It looks a lot like the iPhone. No wonder they are pissed.

[Via CNet]