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Portable Stereo Creator Gets His Due

Posted by Zonk on from the i-thought-sony-created-the-world dept.

eadint wrote to mention an International Tribune article covering Sony's settlement with the inventor of the portable stereo. From the article: "Pavel invented the device known today as the Walkman. But it took more than 25 years of battling the Sony Corporation and others in courts and patent offices around the world before he finally won the right to say it: Andreas Pavel invented the portable personal stereo player."

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  1. Out with the old, in with the new by Kawahee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, Todd Aspeotis invented the iPod! iShall send forth my iLawyers to iSue you for my iPatent. iWish iHad some iFriends so they could see my name iN the iMedia, but iDon't.

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  2. Re:In a Nutshell: by mumblestheclown · · Score: 2, Funny
    Actually, that's the complete OPPOSITE of what the story says. Rather, it says that the inventor stood up for his rights and won, eventually, and now will receive more money than you will ever see in your lifetime despite actually producing ZERO units himself and doing a step that some might characterize as marginally novel.

    But dont worry! Keep belieiving your junior-high school grade korporation konspiracy. I'm sure there will be plenty of other stories on slashdot where you'll get modded insightful for it!

  3. Re:In case of slashdotting... by bheading · · Score: 3, Funny

    But as for that before winning the right he finally to say

    My lexical analyser dumped core trying to get through that.