Published: Friday 29th August, 2008 | Author: Steven Williamson
Products: PlayStation3
Companies: Sony Computers Entertainment Europe (All Sony Computers Entertainment Europe content), Sony (All Sony content)
Platforms: PS3
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email to a friendSony has successfully held off companies in the past who have insisted that the PS3 manufacturer had infringed on patents relating to its Blu-Ray discs, and still they keep coming for a slice of the cake.
This time, Californian-based firm Orinda Intellectual Properties has applied to the courts claiming that Sony has violated patent number 5,438,560, which relates to “an optical disk-shaped recording medium comprising a plurality of tracks,” filed in 1995 by Hyundai Electronics Industries.
Furthermore, a court filing from August 20th, provides evidence that the firm is suing Sony Electronics, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment America and has applied to the courts demanding that Sony pay a 'reasonable royalty' fee. More drastically though, Orinda has asked that Sony cease manufacture, sale and supply of all Blu-Ray enabled products, which includes the Playstation 3.
Despite attempts from a number of companies to sue Sony over patent infringements relating to its Blu-Ray discs, all have failed.
Sony will be hoping that the Federal judges of East Texas are more lenient towards them than they were with Nintendo earlier this year.
It was the same courts that backed Anascape Ltd.in a lawsuit against Nintendo in which it won damages of $21 million for infringements on its motion-technology used in Wii and Gamecube controllers.
Source :: Edge Online
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Is it just me or wouldn't that patent be wiped out really quickly when someone points out that CD's were already doing that long before the patent was filed? (Test: Origonal: Failed; Prior art: Failed; Non Obvious: Failed magnetic disks have been doing this forever!)
Good point, I think a lot of these court cases are simply firms trying it on.Quote
That statement is a little misleading/incomplete. The patent is actually about a certain way of handling bad sectors when recording to the disc.Quote
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