your mother on 25 May 2007
| Entroper said: Agree with Happy, this kind of crap is completely ridiculous. I can't believe the statute of limitations allows for this kind of thing. For years now, it's been known that Blu-ray is Sony's baby. You can't just suddenly swoop in when the kid is already out of kindergarten and demand custody. If a company as big as Sony has publically announced they'll be selling millions of players using your intellectual property, and collecting licensing fees from other companies to use your IP, you need to be on the phone with them immediately to negotiate a deal with them and faxing them a copy of your patent, not serving them with papers years later. |
No! That's exactly what companies need to do: wait until it gains widespread adoption. I think they are suing ahead of time. If you're on the phone after Sony has already invested millions on R&D, PR, marketing and manufacturing, that's when you have the chance to hurt them most: Settle or else all those years of planning will be money poured down the drain!
Not that I agree with going to court (always found the US to be too litigious for my tastes) but if what a company is after is money, they'd do well waiting in the sidelines for a bit.
