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Sony Sued for Blu-Ray Patent Violation
Jaidan writes "According to a Gamespot article, a California-based company named Target Technology is suing Sony over patents it allegedly holds for silver based reflective surfaces. The suit claims that products marketed under the Blu-ray name infringe on a patent it owns for reflective layer materials in optical discs. Target is seeking a permanent injunction preventing Sony from violating its patent rights in the future, as well as damages with interest, multiplied due to what it characterizes as deliberate and willful infringement. ' The patent addresses what Target called a need for specific types of silver-based alloys with the advantages (but not the price) of gold. According to the patent, the alloys are also more resistant to corrosion than pure silver. Target does not specify in its suit whether it believes all of Sony's Blu-ray discs infringe on its patent, or the suit applies to just a portion of the discs manufactured. The patent was filed in April of 2004 and granted in March of 2006.'"
In other news, Target Brands is suing Target Technology for trademark violations.
Does this mean that BluRay capabilities will be (purely by coincidence) removed from the PlayStation 4 as Sony execs try to tell us that high-capacity disks are so "last gen?"
No, because Fred Brooks has already copyrighted the fact that they don't exist.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Watered-down beer has to have prior art from the 1940s. I think it was on here that I read about the beer where 80% of tasters in a double-blind taste-test preferred horse piss, and the other 20% thought both were horse piss. I forget which beer though.
Don't argue with this guy! Patent is his middle, err, last name.
I put the 't' in electrical engineering.
However, every now and then, we get stuck in some sort of paradox, like when Jack Thompson and Microsoft are facing each other, and we have to take sides...
Next up:
After 3 days without programming, life becomes meaningless
- The Tao of Programming
It's a marketing scheme. Sony and Target are in it together to create a buy-the-PS3-now-before-production-must-cease frenzy. Since there are thousands of PS3s sitting on store shelves collecting dust, this would seem to be the best method at resolving the problem in a hurry. Then as soon as the overstock problem is resolved, Sony and Target mysteriously settle on undisclosed terms.
It's Sony for pity's sake. This is one company even the Linux and Windows fanboys agree to hate. ;-)
...quicker, easier, more seductive the darkside is...but more powerful, it is not.
Well obviously hot grits... who would pour Jack Thompson down one's pants??