Rambus Sees $97-a-Share Patent Trial Win Over Hynix (Update2)
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| Rambus Inc., the designer of chips for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation video-game
| console, might collect royalties of as much as $10 billion, six times its
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| market value, by winning a seven-year fight with Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aLRlOdW6c84s&refer=home
See the recent incident at the very bottom. The system is imploding! :-)
TiVO Patent Upheld, Dish May Have to Disable DVR
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| The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a ruling by a lower
| court that Dish Network DVRs infringe upon TiVO's patent on a 'multimedia
| time warping system'. According to some analysts, this could not only make
| Dish liable for damages, it could force them to shut down their DVR service,
| harming their customers.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/02/0219216&from=rss
Red Hat packagers dance around frivolous music game software patents
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| Of course, there’s probably lots of prior art on this, so it’s hard to
| believe this even got accepted. Until you see the actual patents, of course.
| I think this is meant to be covered by Konami’s US patent #6450888 dating
| from September 2002, although Calloway indicated US patent #6347998 from
| February 2002. In any case, both show what empty snow jobs patents are
| nowadays.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/red_hat_packagers_dance_around_frivolous_music_game_software_patents
Days ago:
Twelve billion euros claimed from Nokia for use of patents
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| IPcom, an exploiter of patents based in Pullach, near Munich, is demanding 12
| billion euros from the Finnish group Nokia for use of mobile telephony
| patents, reports Handelsblatt. IPCom is said to have lodged a complaint with
| the Land Court in Mannheim in early January, aimed at prohibiting Nokia’s use
| of eight patent families. That would mean a ban on sales in a large number of
| countries, though what particular patents are involved is not yet clear.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102822/from/rss09
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