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Lucent Sues Microsoft, Wants All 360s Recalled

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-did-it-first dept.

robyannetta writes "Lucent has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, demanding that they pull all Xbox 360s from the market. Lucent claims that Microsoft has violated their MPEG2 patents which they claim they patented in 1993." While it's unlikely console will be pulled from shelves, it's one way to generate some publicity.

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  1. woah! by CRC'99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If this pans out, it's one huge way to give MS the finger...

    Does anyone have a link to the patent? This could be very interesting - especially given the wide-spread distribution of the Xbox 360...

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  2. Proof reading, please! by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While it's unlikely console will be pulled from shelves, it's one way to generate some publicity.

    Jesus dude.

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  3. To think... by jonfields · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The 18 years war is finally coming to an end... It started with Genesis vs Super Nintendo, It ends with Nintendo the victor with PS3 being too big for its own good, and Xbox 360 dying.

  4. Re:This is a nonsense article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, I think they mean that Microsoft violated the laws concerning a copyright patent (so, a patent on copyright, whatever that may be), otherwise, they'd had stated 'copyrightED patent laws' :)