Yeah, I didn't bother spending ten minutes looking for one which flips upwards exactly like mine does - somehow, I thought that merely presenting an example of a similar one would be enough to convey that there are such cases out there. Really, it feels like you're just picking holes for the sake of it at this point.
I tend to agree with the sentiment.
Obviously licensing and lawyers has to be dealt with.
But it is trivial to come up with a workable design based on the elements we've found. A flip-up hinge lid like the example JJA Communicator is a simple design pattern to anybody who's crafted anything.
It's 2 peg holes in the sides of the frame near the top.
The The flip panel is sized to cover the screen in some artful way (maybe put the TOS Grill on it, or make it look like JJA's.
On the sides, near the top, the arms extend which include the pegs that insert into the peg holes on the frame.
The length of the arms, sweep of the arch between the arms controls how far the flip lid will open. JJA design shows an example of the typical range of motion, much like the classic flip phones.
Once prototypes are built, they can be refined with some time on a 3d printer. Once that's set, ship it off to China for mass production.
Really, the only barrier is lawyers. And Paramount is fairly promiscuous with their Trek licensing, so how hard can it be.
Even the TOS Communicator is a cheap mod. Buy the toy, gut it, install the parts from a $40 Motorola bluetooth ear piece. Much like the ingenuity of the Steampunkers, I expect that SOMEBODY has already done this in the Trekkie community.