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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. In a Nutshell: by kellererik · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you are not protected by MEGACORP(TM) with lots of money to burn in legal battles, forget standing up to your rights. It really does not matter if you got there (and tried to patent) first, all your ideas belong to the ones with the deepest pockets.
    Isn't this a wonderful word?

    my 2 cents (if this should be trademarked by now, consider this sentence non-existant)