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SONICblue Sues TiVo for Patent Infringement

Posted by chrisd on Wednesday December 12, 2001 @10:00PM from the guess-we-saw-this-coming dept.

SVDave writes "Yesterday, Slashdot reported that SONICblue was going to start negotiating patent licensing with TiVo. It appears that SONICblue has switched strategies: today they've decided to sue TiVo for patent infringement. Given TiVo's patents on PVR technology, I would expect a quick countersuit, though SONICblue claims that ReplayTV does not infringe on any of TiVo's patents."

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Re:Patents ? by Rogerborg · 2001-12-13 01:33 · Score: 3, Troll
- And just how is this patent-circus supposed to be good for the economy ?
There are more lawyers in the USA than there are gas pumps. There are more law students in college than are currently in practice. Half of both Congress and the Senate are members of the American Bar Association, as were the previous President and her husband. The winner of the most recent Presidential election studied at Vanderbilt Law School, and the people who gave the Presidency to the other guy were all law graduates.

Won't someone please think of the lawyers!
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