US Trade Commission investigates Blu-ray patent (joystiq.com)

[8th lutz]

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/24/us-trade...blu-ray-patent/

 

While we hear Sony has kept the party going non-stop since HD DVD's demise, the US International Trade Commission has stepped in as the role of the party pooper. Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, a former Columbia University professor, has filed a complaint with the ITC over what she says is infringement for patent she owns on certain light-emitting and laser diodes contained in Blu-ray players and other electronics.

 

The commission has voted to investigate the claim, though they have "not yet made any decision on the merits of the case." Rothschild's complaint lists over 30 companies, including Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and Nokia.

 

Great, another person that abuses Patents for grounds of suing companies.

Will this crap end soon. The only thing the US Trande Commision should investigate is EA's business practices.

Edited March 24, 2008 by 8th lutz

[Ze_ro]

Great, another person that abuses Patents for grounds of suing companies.

You mean there's another use?

 

--Zero

[JamesD]

Patent's are to protect an inventor's rights and if these companies violate the patent then they should pay to license it.

If it weren't for patents then big companies would steal ideas from inventors all the time.

What bothers me is that patent was probably based on research from a grant paid for by taxpayers and it should belong to the taxpayers!

[Almost Rice]

I agree, possible customers only talked about my wife's invention in the terms of how they could get around the patent. Too bad all of their ideas were in a patent filed late 2007 by us. We have big companies like Walmart coming to see us. I know they are trying to dissect the patent to see if they could make our invention without licensing it from us or buying from us.

 

Patent's are to protect an inventor's rights and if these companies violate the patent then they should pay to license it.

If it weren't for patents then big companies would steal ideas from inventors all the time.

What bothers me is that patent was probably based on research from a grant paid for by taxpayers and it should belong to the taxpayers!

[Underball]

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/24/us-trade...blu-ray-patent/

 

While we hear Sony has kept the party going non-stop since HD DVD's demise, the US International Trade Commission has stepped in as the role of the party pooper. Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, a former Columbia University professor, has filed a complaint with the ITC over what she says is infringement for patent she owns on certain light-emitting and laser diodes contained in Blu-ray players and other electronics.

 

The commission has voted to investigate the claim, though they have "not yet made any decision on the merits of the case." Rothschild's complaint lists over 30 companies, including Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and Nokia.

 

Great, another person that abuses Patents for grounds of suing companies.

Will this crap end soon. The only thing the US Trande Commision should investigate is EA's business practices.

Anybody else notice anything fishy here?

 

The article's headline and content are clearly slanted as an anti Blu-Ray/Sony story, yet TOSHIBA is one of the companies named in the complaint.

 

So does that mean that HD DVD was also benefiting from infringed patented technology, or that the article's writer has a bent against Blu-ray, and worded the Headline and story content intentionally misleadingly when it in reality probably has nothing to do with blu-ray, but rather it does with specific diodes that are used in all manner of consumer electronics?

 

Nothing worse than sadly biased yellow journalism and corporate hype.

[moycon]

but rather it does with specific diodes that are used in all manner of consumer electronics?

 

is infringement for patent she owns on certain light-emitting and laser diodes contained in Blu-ray players and other electronics.

 

If I had to guess, they don't mention HD DVD because the format is dead.

[+batari]

The majority of the high-tech patents I've read should never have been issued, IMO. The USPTO is understaffed and overworked, but that's no excuse.

[Shannon]

In these days of patent squatting you just never know.

[Video]

but rather it does with specific diodes that are used in all manner of consumer electronics?

 

is infringement for patent she owns on certain light-emitting and laser diodes contained in Blu-ray players and other electronics.

 

If I had to guess, they don't mention HD DVD because the format is dead.

 

No, Other electronics probably refers to the PS3. HD DVD uses a different diod (that IIRC, is also red like the old DVD diods)

[Hyper_Eye]

but rather it does with specific diodes that are used in all manner of consumer electronics?

 

is infringement for patent she owns on certain light-emitting and laser diodes contained in Blu-ray players and other electronics.

 

If I had to guess, they don't mention HD DVD because the format is dead.

 

No, Other electronics probably refers to the PS3. HD DVD uses a different diod (that IIRC, is also red like the old DVD diods)

 

Nope. HD-DVD uses the same type of blue laser diode as Blu-Ray.

[moycon]

No, Other electronics probably refers to the PS3. HD DVD uses a different diod (that IIRC, is also red like the old DVD diods)

 

So Toshiba makes a Blu-Ray player and/or the PS3??

 

Weird.