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As Google Inc. launches its Nexus One phone, one call that the company hasn’t made is to the family members of science-fiction author Philip K. Dick, who complain the device’s name infringes on one of Mr. Dick’s most famous novels.

“We feel this is a clear infringement of our intellectual-property rights,” said Isa Dick Hackett, a daughter of Mr. Dick and the chief executive of Electric Shepherd Productions, an arm of the Dick estate devoted to adapting the late author’s works.

“Our legal team is dealing head-on with this,” she said Tuesday. An attorney for the estate declined to elaborate on what legal steps it has taken.

Mr. Dick’s 1968 novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” which served as the basis for the 1982 cult film “Blade Runner,” follows a bounty hunter chasing androids known as Nexus-6 models.

The Asimov estate is presently kicking itself that Isaac never penned a prequel called “I, Phone.”

Okay, let’s see how many Blade Runner quotes we can work into this one….

“‘Android’? What’s that?”
“You know what a iPhone is?”
“Of course!”
“Same thing.”

“Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your phone.”

“It’s a test designed to provoke a financial response.”