Mr. Domino
Regular
The rate of these lawsuits popping up are scaring me to be honest.
http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15260
http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15260
Another lawsuit against Sony
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Again?
Perhaps all the companies suing Sony, should sue its other as well since they all seem to have their patent violated by the same product.
Are these patents checked if their description is too generic before they are registered? They often sound so generic that its easy to sue someone.
Also I thought you dont exactly patent the product itself (ie what it does), but the design of the product
Perhaps all the companies suing Sony, should sue its other as well since they all seem to have their patent violated by the same product.
Are these patents checked if their description is too generic before they are registered? They often sound so generic that its easy to sue someone.
Also I thought you dont exactly patent the product itself (ie what it does), but the design of the product
No. They should do checks, but the patent system grants absolutely anything these days. Just see MS recently patenting the Page Up/Page Down keys a couple of decades after their introduction. Looks like the patent system is just there to earn the government money, both in patent fees and in court fees from companies trying to work out who the hell has what rights to what ideas.
This is where the angry talk about the broken patent system normally starts, but let's try to be positive for once. The patent system and associated legal conumdrums are responsible for thousands of jobs and countless millions in wealth redistribution from the corporations to the workers of the legal system. If the patent system was actually fixed, there'd be massive redundancies and whole households turned on their heads. It's a valuable sub-economy, supporting people without them having to contribute anything constructive to society, adn there must be many, many people who are happy with the way things are.
Catisfit , the patents being voliated may be tech that sony brought into the BDA. If so I think that sueing sony would be the proper step as the BDA would just be using tech that sony told them was valid.
But i'm sure these patents are just bs. I wonder how long it will beu ntill companys simply stop releasing products in the states
But i'm sure these patents are just bs. I wonder how long it will beu ntill companys simply stop releasing products in the states
Betanumerical
Veteran
Its strange that we are only seeing these lawsuits after Blu-ray has been semi successful.
Even if that were the case, it makes no sense to go for Sony Computer Entertainment America
Even if that were the case, it makes no sense to go for Sony Computer Entertainment America
Why not ? Shoudl they go after Sony of Japan which is the same company just based in Japan. Why not sue the American branch ?
The BDA pulls from a pool of patents that the BDA group has and based on those patents everyone gets a % of royaltys . IF sony holds the patent in question or part of the tech was developed by sony and introduced into the BDA though them that would leave sony open for a lawsuit. I'm sure after that goes through if sucessfull they will sue the rest of the BDA. it also doesn't hurt that sony is currently the biggest seller of Bluray drives in America with its ps3.
You missed the point - or rather, you focused on the wrong words. Let me help you:
Sony Computer Entertainment America
Feel free to point out which patents relating to disc storage technology would be held directly by the computer entertainment arm of Sony, yet used by the BDA.
I don't know exactly which patents are held by which part of sony or if its all one joint patent pool which means simply sueing any part of sony is effective.
