Bluray Copyright Infringment investigation.  

It's actually more of a patent infringement case. Some folks are disussing this news here, in this thread; http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1010431 on the third page, for the most part.

Seems that there's not enough discussion interest to justify its own thread. This one will probably be locked shortly.

Mike

Some of these law suits go back for a while... they weren't just born yesterday. And some are being taken pretty seriously. The Professor at the University Of Columbia for example has quite the Law firm backing her up, purchased in part by The University Of Columbia. Educational institutes in general are not known for getting involved in frivolous suits... especially the more Prestigious ones like the U of C.

We'll see what happens!

Yeah, like it makes sense to sue when there's nothing to be made.

It would be kind of silly to go after someone who is not making any money off your patent.


That link is blocked for me, but if this is the same case I read about last week, it looks to be a very good one. Philips has already settled.

She seems to hold a reasonably solid patent over the process to manufacture blue laser diodes. It affects not only all bluray companies, but also Toshiba(which was cited on the case, if I am not mistaken). The most probably outcome is they will settle out of court...

Allan

It looks to me like threads are not locked for lack of interest but rather most often because the Moderator basically does not like what he sees being posted. Some call that censorship.

These threads are locked because the assumption of this is ridiculous.

Cannot and will not ever happen (unless a class action lawyer hits the lottery and a favorable set of judges along the way).

Lock this and delete it from the archives. I, too, am tired of these conspiracy theorist threads.

In American copy right law the patent holder has an obligation to inform an infringer as soon as infringement is discovered that they are infringing. Failure to do so can have a detrimental effect on the possible remedies. Translation no crap like you guys are describing.

We are talking about some companies that do a LOT of research so the possibility that they have prior art or can show this patent to be lacking in some way is very possible. Holding this up in court is a possibility as well. I think I will hold off throwing my player in the garbage for a while yet.

This was started in 2005:

We already canned this discussion a while ago, yes, in another thread.

larry