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From: | Doug Mentohl |
Subject: | Lenovo sued over MPEG patent .. |
Date: | Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:55:55 +0000 |
User-agent: | BlackBerry8330/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105 |
Beeney's clients claim that Lenovo knowingly violated their patent on a type of compression technology called MPEG-2, which is used in everything from DVDs to satellite television. (MPEG-2 compresses data into a more manageable form. Without it, an analog movie converted to DVD, for instance, would require dozens of disks.)
The complaint notes that Lenovo's competitors, such as Hewlett-Packard Company, Apple Inc., and Sony Corporation, have licensed the technology, while Lenovo -- which has a 40 percent market share in China and about 25 percent in the United States -- has not. The plaintiffs are expected to seek eye-popping damages ..
http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/digestTAL.jsp?id=1202428705663"The development of the standard itself took less time than the patent negotiations"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_holders
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