Bright LCD Patent Dispute

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 7, 2004 @07:40AM from the that-was-my-idea dept.

pcp_ip writes "Honeywell filed suit Wednesday against 34 companies (including, Apple, Dell, Sony, Kodak, Fuji et al.) for infringment of patent 5,280,371. The patent for "a directional diffuser for a liquid crystal display" was filed on January 1994 and enables "a display to produce a brighter image without requiring additional power." Honeywell is looking for an injunction to prevent the defendants from continuing to infringe its patent, and for "damages adequate to compensate them for Defendants infringement." So much for LCD prices coming down! Where's OLED when you need it?"

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Re:Valid patent for once by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-07 08:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It's not their job to police the other companies you moron. Companies should police themselves. When they don't, when the tresspass upon the rights of others, they should be held accountable by the insturments of law. And so it is.
Re:Patent squatting? by NeoSkandranon · 2004-10-07 08:39 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound trying to use "genuii" as the plural of "genius" ?

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