^^Well said, Samuel. The funny thing is whenever the EU sued  MS the members of it's church were complaining that the EU was anti-American, anti-Microsoft and whatever.

Now these hypocrites are singing it's praises. What a bunch of..

Oh man this thread... seriously...

How on earth did this thread end up discussing about MS and it's dispute with EU about IE?

I blame whoever brought up MS. After that it was all downhill (entertainment), from there. 

^^I am no detective but maybe the fact that both MS and Sony has consoles and got done by the EU (although one case was not console related) has some relevance.

Anyway whenever has ANY thread stuck 100% on the topic? You expected it to start now?

It's just that I find it funny on the range of content some of the posts here.

From MS' IE EU dipute to not loving LG Washing Machines to bringing up non existant Korean Consoles to someone loving LG panels to LG's coporate size compared to Sony and it goes on.

Such diversity!

Anybody know how I can donate to LG?

It's about time somebody taught those hacking thieves a lesson.

...uuumm...OK, now that you have put it that way.. I cannot argue with that. I obviously skipped that bit. Well said.

Console wise speaking.

Though It always comes down to the holidays where the Wii has a lot of steam - I think MS with a price drop and further Kinect push could actually win 2011 despite having nothing big for games. This is also of course riding on LG's ban of PS3 sales. This might also hurt a PS3 price drop depending on what LG gets out of it.

Don't be too hasty. I am not saying that you could be wrong, but this can easily be resolved or the verdict turned around in no time...on the other hand ...

They only thing surprising here is that a preliminary injunction was actually granted, in Europe no less.

I have been involved in a patent case myself and how that went is,

A competitor launched complaints against the company I worked for and filed it in Wisconsin to get it processed quickly with a relatively high chance of success. This lead to a long process of discovery, investigating the claims, disputing them, proving prior art etc. We probably could have won the case on that alone but it would take a long time and representing a foreign company in a US court against a US company is always a gamble. Especially with how many ways patent claims can be interpreted. Most of the time I spend with our lawyers was discussing the exact meaning of each word in the patent claims, and finding examples to back up the meaning favouring our position instead of a more general meaning that probably everyone infringes on.

The way to get these cases to solve quickly is to file a counter claim, just what LG did now. Since the company I worked for was still young it did not have a big patent portfolio yet. Solution, buy a couple of patents that the competitor infringes on and bring that against them. Result the case was solved quickly with a mutual agreement to leave each other alone.

Funny thing is just last year they were both in court again, this time as co-defenders against a third company filing a patent case against them. The case was dismissed again.