Xbox 360 doesn't violate Alcatel patent, says jury Options

[Xbox-Scene]

Xbox 360 doesn't violate Alcatel patent, says jury Posted by XanTium | June 4 23:50 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From gamesindustry.biz: [QUOTE] A federal jury has found in favour of Microsoft, deciding that its Xbox 360 console does not violate a 1993 patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent SA. The most recent trial was the third of five scheduled between the two companies over alleged patent infringement. Alcatel-Lucent sought USD 419 million in damages. Microsoft had been seeking USD 11.5 million in damages, alleging that Alcatel-Lucent infringed patents of its own. [/QUOTE] Full Story: gamesindustry.biz

[bucko]

Haha Alcatel-Lucent SA got pwned

[Altima NEO]

What was the deal with Alcatel again?

[biscoito]

patents only last for 20 years anyway, I think copyright should also last for 20 days

[kowrip]

What was the deal with Alcatel again?

I'm not sure what "deal" you are referring to, but Alcatel merged with Lucent not too long ago. They now go by Alcatel-Lucent. I have no idea about the patents they claimed were being infringed upon.

[Neog2]

Its the newest thing.
Buy a company that did a bunch of research in the past.
Open there patent lockers, and sue every single body they may are may
not have actually infringed on some aspect of a bogus general patent.

I honestly after seeing this gone on for a couple of years with other companies as well as this
one, Wish that if a company is bought by someone else they shouldnt have full rights to old
patents.

like make a limit as for as years are something.

[djtonic]

Its the newest thing.
Buy a company that did a bunch of research in the past.
Open there patent lockers, and sue every single body they may are may
not have actually infringed on some aspect of a bogus general patent.

I honestly after seeing this gone on for a couple of years with other companies as well as this
one, Wish that if a company is bought by someone else they shouldnt have full rights to old
patents.

like make a limit as for as years are something.

Uh....What? The nice thing about typing is you have the chance to read what you wrote before hitting "post".

A buy-out does bring the chance for the new company to make use of old patents and they rightfully should. If I purchase a video store and the contents do you expect that I not be able to rent those videos? That is the whole point!
Let em sue.

~Dj~

[StrictPuppet]

I'm not sure what "deal" you are referring to, but Alcatel merged with Lucent not too long ago. They now go by Alcatel-Lucent. I have no idea about the patents they claimed were being infringed upon.

This suit is for...

Alcatel-Lucent are suing Microsoft over a patent called, "Adaptive Coding and Decoding of Frames and Fields of Video".

Lucent are claiming that Microsoft have breached the conditions of the patent, they say, "Microsoft has infringed this patent by releasing the Xbox 360 console, which has MPEG2 technology."

These guys have been suing each other for awhile now. A couple years ago Lucent sued MS for $1.5 billion, because they claim to own the technology behind MP3, and won... this ruling was reversed last year because it was horseshit.... (thats a confusing legal term)