Since the lady patent holder has a history of settling, same will probably happen here.
Hard to imagine this whole gang fighting her with so much at stake...
If rumors about $0.5 Billion paid to Warner are true, what is another couple $100 Millions...
Sony's profitability will be just postponed for a quarter or two.
Diogen.
Since the lady patent holder has a history of settling, same will probably happen here.
Hard to imagine this whole gang fighting her with so much at stake...
If rumors about $0.5 Billion paid to Warner are true, what is another couple $100 Millions...
Sony's profitability will be just postponed for a quarter or two.
Diogen.
Of course they will... And Microsoft, too.
But don’t forget the hundreds of millions of dollars in the settlement. That’ll sure keep the prices from falling also licensing fees to other manufacturers won’t lower anytime soon if the patient holder gets a kings ransom.
My take from the article is that improvements to the process still fall under the original patient. As it should, anybody can tweak something that took years of research and hard work to create. Where as they would have never had that opportunity if the original had never been put forth. If I had to make a bet I’d say Sony will have to pay up big and pay the lions share considering the PS3 has used most of the diodes to date.In addition I believe that most companies are using a new etching process to increase the number of good blu lasers and also to reduce size. It will be real interesting to see how the court views this. I might have to go and get a patent on the wheel if new technology built on old still has to pay to the old tech!
