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German Police Raid 51 CeBIT Stands Over Patent Claims
LeCaddie writes "Last week German investigators raided 51 exhibitor stands at CeBIT, the German information technology fair in Hanover, looking for goods suspected of infringing patents. Some 183 police, customs officers, and prosecutors raided the fair on Wednesday and carried off 68 boxes of electronic goods and documents including cellphones, navigation devices, digital picture frames, and flat-screen monitors. Of the 51 companies raided, 24 were Chinese. Most of the patents concerned were related to devices with MP3, MP4, and DVB standard functions for digital audio and video, blank CDs, and DVD copiers, police said." In the US there are no criminal penalties associated with patents, and such a raid could not be conducted, especially in the absence of a court ruling of infringement.
STFU. You must have amassed quite a few user accounts to get that post modded to +4, Informative, eh.
My thoughts exactly "Germany says - please don't hold CEBit here again for at least a couple decades- we do not need your money!"
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Und das war den enden aus den driten Reich von Herr Hilter
cebit Hannover: heimen (kapital) auf den (muslim) terroristen auf den welt