Lucent Sues Microsoft, Wants All 360s Recalled

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

The poster misspelled 'revenue'. So I predict what will happen is that both corps. will throw legions of lawyers at each other for a while before developing cross licensing agreements. Lucent gets a new revenue stream, some 'goodwill' (if that is possible from a company like MS) from MS, MS gets to keep the XBox and possibly open another channel by opening a cross license channel for some of their software.

It is all a very ritualized dance. Though I could be wrong.