The SCO case was different. That had much less to do with patents and a lot more to do with trademarks and copyright. That being said, IBM is notorious for destroying companies that try to attack them. And frankly, IBM has more patents than God. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in their annals of patents they have one for cell-like technology that goes back to ~a year before this companies patent. Then they could just get the other patent invalidated.
In any case, here's looking forward to the days that all these lame patents enter the public domain. This one, for example, will happen within the next half decade or thereabouts. Once that happens, Sony has a free pass to the technology.
Please, PLEASE do NOT feed the trolls.
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--Predictions--
1) WiiFit will outsell the pokemans.
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