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 Send to email | Sony Slapped With Blu-ray Patent Lawsuit (SNE) in General |  By Silicon
el 28-Aug-2008 |  The latest tech company to fall prey to a patent troll: Sony, which is being sued for allegedly violating a patent with its Blu-ray discs that an unknown company holds on "optical disc recording."
Orinda Intellectual Properties is suing Sony for violating patent 5,438,560, which was originally granted in 1995 to Hyundai Electronics Industries, and patents 'an optical disk-shaped recording medium comprising a plurality of tracks.' The company is seeking an injunction on manufacturing, selling and distributing Blu-ray devices, as well as a "reasonable royalty," the video game site Edge reports.
But companies file patent lawsuits like this all the time -- Sony was hit with one about Blu-ray already last year and it was dismissed. So what makes this one different? It's filed in East Texas, a region that has some friendly judges who are very broad in their interpretation of patent infringement. In May, Nintendo fell prey to an East Texas judgment and had to pay $21 million to no-name Anascape Ltd. for violating a patent regarding game controllers.
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| Sony Lose Patent Lawsuit, Have To Cough Up $18 Million [Sony] | | Waaaay back in 2006, Agere Systems sued Sony. Said that the PSP (and some other Sony devices) infringed on their patent for a "wireless local area network apparatus". A key difference in this and other cases we see like this is that Agere aren't patent trolls: they're a proper tech com [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Nov-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Sony Law Legal News Playstation Portable PSP
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| MTV Games finds Konami's Rock Band lawsuit 'surprising' |  Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm
Here at Joystiq, we weren't too surprised when Konami decided to jump on the legal bandwagon by bringing a lawsuit against the makers of Rock Band for patent [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Jul-2008 by Kyle Orland in drummanifuitar-freakskaraoke-revolutionkonamiMTV GamesMTV-gamesMtvGamesrock-bandrock-revolution
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| Nintendo's Patent Case: The Unanswered Questions [Nintendo] | | Earlier today, we learned that Nintendo had lost its bid for a new trial in the patent infringement suit brought against it by small Texas-based firm Anascape Ltd. Nintendo is ordered to pay $21 million to Anascape, who also named Microsoft and Sony in the same lawsuit — those two, however, opted [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Jul-2008 by Leigh Alexander in Nintendo anascape Industry Lawsuit Original
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| Nintendo Facing Controller Ban Over Patent Lawsuit [Nintendo] | | Getting your hands on a Wavebird, Classic Controller, or Nintendo GameCube could shortly become very difficult as Nintendo faces a ban on all three devices, following a failed attempt to overturn the verdict in a $21-million dollar patent infringement suit brought on by Texas-based Anascape Ltd. U. [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Jul-2008 by Mike Fahey in Nintendo control issues Email alerts Lawsuit News Top wavebird
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| Nintendo slapped with another waggle suit |  Filed under: Nintendo Wii
Before we get started, doesn't a "waggle suit" sound like the funnest thing anybody could possibly own? Yeah, we thought so too.Anyway, Ohio-based Motiva says that the Wiimote violates a patent of [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Nov-2008 by Justin McElroy in lawsuitnintendo-wii
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| Konami Suing Harmonix Over Rock Band [Rock Band Lawsuit] | | Betty, file this under ?surprised it took them this long?, could you? Konami?s lawyers in the US have filed a patent lawsuit against Harmonix (and MTV, and VIacom) in the federal court in Tyler, Texas. They allege that Harmonix?s Rock Band violates a pair of patents Konami obtained in 2002 and [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Jul-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Rock Band Lawsuit Harmonix Konami Law Legal News Top
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| Zounds! A New Wii Controller Patent?! No. [Rumor] | | What the?! Another Nintendo controller peripheral? This recently published US Patent and Trademark Office filing would certainly convince one to believe so! That is, until one looked at the date of the patent application submission, which dates back to 2005. Su [..] Read complete article | | Published 09-Jul-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Rumor Controller News Nintendo Patent Wii
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| Patent Trolls Suing Sony, Want To Halt PS3 Sales [Legal] | | You know, sometimes these patent suits are justified. The Immersion stuff, that's fair enough, because Immersion actually make things that rumble. It's what they do. Stuff like this suit, though? It does little but take the piss. Orinda Intellectual Properties USA (the n [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Aug-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Legal Blu-Ray Law News Playstation 3 PS3 Sony
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) was granted a patent on Friday for a "hand-held [sic] device with touchscreen and digital tactile pixels." It'd be a stretch to say any of this is expl [..] 
