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Sony sues Apex for DVD patent infringement...
Posted on 11/04/02 17:48 by Robin
More DVD news today: on Yahoo we can read that Sony has filed a lawsuit against Apex Digital Inc. for infringements of DVD player patents.
They claim that Apex imports and sells cheap DVD players into the US without paying the required licensing fees to Sony.
"This is clearly an infringement of our patent rights," said Yoshikazu Ochiai, a spokesman at Sony. "We have been trying to get Apex to agree to pay the fees for the last year or so, but we came to the conclusion in late March that our talks would not bear fruit." Ochiai said Sony is still open to a private resolution of the matter and will withdraw the case if Apex agrees to pay the licensing fees. |
At the beginning of this month Apex posted on its Web site that it had agreed to sign a licensing agreement with Sony, Pioneer and Philips. But spokesmans of these companies don't know this yet
Source: yahoo
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I think this is more of an assassination attempt on a company that defies Sony by making DVD players that will play CD-R, CD-RW, MP3, VCD, and SVCD.
All my friends own Apex DVDs because Apex is more powerful. Sony wants all DVD players to be crippled from reading CD-R and MP3. Apex, not being a monopoly and not owning a movie studio or recording label, naturally sees these weak Sony players and says "We can do better than that and make a buck." More power to them.
Apex is what capitalism is SUPPOSED to be. Sony's corporate dream is a new order of feudalism.
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