MP3 players hit by patent infringement suit
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Texas MP3 buys patent, immediately files suit The world's major MP3 player manufacturers have been sued in a patent infringement case by a company that began the case the day after it acquired the patent.â¦
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A lawsuit filed against Apple alleges the company unfairly uses restrictions with its iPod line and iTunes Music Store to beat out competitors.
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The creator of a wireless speaker system is suing Sling Media for patent infringement.
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Sales of MP3 players are rocketing, fuelled by falling unit prices, integration of MP3 support into a wider range of devices and the creation of legal music download websites.
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3M filed suit this week in Minneapolis, Minn. against computer makers Sony and Lenovo, along with a handful of other firms, for allegedly infringing on its patents related to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The company also asked that imports of the batteries be blocked.
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The maker of the BlackBerry claims Motorola has infringed on its patents and charges 'exorbitant' royalties.
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Patent infringement claim A German court has ruled that local Public Prosecution officers were right to seize SanDisk digital music players at the IFA consumer electronics show held in Berlin last September. SanDisk's players are accused of incorporating without permission technology owned by a number of European firms.â¦
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Wii affected? Super Mario and friends are facing legal action from a US-based semiconductor intellectual property company over an alleged patent infringement - potentially within the Wii games console.â¦
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Compressed audio players - also known as MP3 players â-re available in portable, home and automotive form factors and from major and minor consumer electronics manufacturers and PC vendors.
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Recording companies filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users Thursday, the latest round of legal action in the industry&#39;s effort to squelch unauthorized swapping of music online.
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Made more money licensing MP3 player patent than selling MP3 players You can see now why Creative Technology's now so pro-iPod - last month it announced a range of 'Made for iPod'-branded accessories. Its latest financial results, posted last night, show a massive upswing in revenues thanks, we'd say, to Apple's move to license Creative's key MP3 player patent.â¦
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is being given a taste of its own medicine by peer-to-peer (P2P) company Altnet, which has launched a civil suit against the trade body alleging patent infringement.
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InfoWorld - SanDiskÂ is suing 25 companies, including South Korean giant LG Electronics for allegedly infringing patents used in removable flash storage products including MP3 players and USB flash drives.
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SanDisk MP3 players are seized from a German electronics show amid a growing legal battle over licensing.
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By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE - A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major sour note for other technology companies in the digital music business.
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The industry filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 761 computer users in the latest round of litigation in the record companies&#39; effort to stamp out unauthorized trading of music online.
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A new generation of smaller, sleeker and cheaper MP3 players from the likes of Sony, Rio, Creative and Rave MP are hitting the market this fall, and they all have Apple Computer&#39;s white-hot digital music player in their sights.