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LG has set the legal attack dogs on Sony, over Blu-ray playback tech used in the PS3, Bravia TVs and some Sony VAIO laptops and some cameras and camcorders. Where better to do this than the US, where Korean vendor is seeking to stop sales of Sony products that allegedly infringe four LG patents. LG filed the complaint with …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    And the loser is...

    Of course, the biggest looser from all this and similar nonsense is you and I - the end users/consumer. It means that the products you can buy are not as good as they could be because of the numerous, and often silly, patents that companies hold. A manufacturer often takes the cheaper route (and who can blame them) of working around a patent, rather than buying into it. Of course, the patented method is quite often the best (and often obvious) method, which means the product on the shelf is never quite as good as it could be.

    Having worked in the consumer electronics industry for many years, I have seen this happen time and time again.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Did LG want to be part of BDA?

    As they are going the wrong way about staying in.

    Wouldn't it be hilarious if they could no longer make Blu-Ray players, as they lost their license.

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  3. Kevin 9

    Go Patents!

    Stealing productivity from Real GDP since the beginning of the Computer Revolution! Nothing like reinventing the wheel over and over again in slightly different ways and then letting lawyers fight over whether they are different enough or not.

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  4. ukuser
    Megaphone

    sony

    Sony stealing technology, surley not these are the jead of the MPAA & RIAA & again they are in the news for theft... or is it copywrite infringement, nope according to sony its theft!

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  5. Mectron

    There is two thing that prevent progress....

    Patents and Religion.

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  6. Highlander

    And once again, patents are an obstacle to competition

    Of course we don't know the merits of Sony's claim against LG, but it does rather seem that LG's claim against Sony is based more in a desire to wreak retribution than actually pursue real infringement - especially as Sony is one of the lead developers of BluRay and one of the founding members of the BDA. It does rather seem that the licenses from the BDA that all bluray player makers have would cover all of this, so LG is most likely shooting blanks

    Of course, the US legal system being what it is, it will cost millions of dollars and many months for that to be determined.

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