looks like we're at a different stage

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but this is different there's no way all these company's can actually get sued and just because she's some old lady with money and is probably running low unless she embezzle it her self.


I don't think there is much merit,Hell if thats the case then companies should get sued for infringing on cellphone screens.lmao

If it's true, she's allowed to stand up for her rights and she should be compensated appropriately. Do you know how often throughout history the person who originally invented something gets screwed and it's usually large companies that are guilty of doing it. If it is un-true this will just go away like it should, either way it has no effect on you or I, because Sony and everyone else involved will just pay her off, like they all have a thousand time before, when they have been nailed for copyright and patent infringement.

I can tell you right now,this will get thrown out.

"waaa waaa it's mine, miiinnneee, I'll show you."

Someone is acting pretty selfish and is just trying to get an almighty buck from the big guys. She needs a timeout.

I'm for Sony on this even though I don't like their business practices. But then they would be doing the same if the tables were turned only it would have been settled much sooner than the scenario we have now.

Tom Magrino you have just won the coveted, and highly competitive, Most Missleading Gamespot Headline Award. Huuurahh, Wooohooom, Yippie. Congradulations. With a title like "US gov't investigating PS3's Blu-ray" you're future looks bright indeed.

answer to Kratos_karmakar = Big Business

It taken him nearly a yr to file a lawsuit man America has a serious suing culture.

u know wat?an investigation about diodes can only happen in the land of the free and the home of the ...............

Maybe the Blu-Ray is some alien technology that leaked out from Area 51 - death rays abound!

:loftus42

the technology the she is suing for is only now being upgraded in those traffic lights, mobile devices, etc. it's not the same technology thats has been used for years in those products, but just now is being implemented in those devices. Only the devices that use the blue\violet LED's that she got the patent for.:

Ah! Didn't know that.

Autolycus, have you ever heard of this words before? "Human Instrumentality Project", "mankind complementation/completion plan", "Human Enhancement Project" or "the Human Complementation Project".
I better go and patent this terms, ideals and alike ASAP!!!

How does this have anything to do with my now useless HDDVD player sitting in my living room?

Someone allowed this nutjob to patent?

this woman is part of a group of people called the BILDERBURG group. They believe, based on EUGENICS, that they are superior to the human race and that EVERYONE not part of the Globalist elite was born to be a slave to them (including sony executives). The group has IMMENSE power through the WORLD and because of that, she'll win. mark my words.

She isn't going to win.

Boo hoo

The person's just looking for a settlement. If this has a real basis, Sony and the others will settle out of court and move on. If it's a load of crap, they'll get it thrown out of court.

Another day, another lawsuit...

Looks like Sony will have to pay licensing fees to keep using Blu-Rays

I dont care.

they're just fishing for a settlement and then this will be done with

YourDaddy88: Patents like these can last 20 years from the date of filing, so her patents will expire late this year. Design patents only last for 14 years from the date they are granted, but those are much less common and only cover the asthetic design.

@tonicmole: It is not just the patent office's responsibility. Sony is large enough that they have many patent lawyers whose only jobs are to ensure that this sort of thing does not happen. Plus, the patent office can only reject Sony from filing a comparable patent in the US. Sony can still get similar patents in other countries unless Rothschild already has the patent in those countries as well. Furthermore, Sony and these other companies can manufacture the diodes without ever applying for a patent, so the patent office can not prevent such things from happening.

From what I understand, Rothschild only has the patents for the US which means that these companies can use her methods for manufacturing the diodes as long as they do not sell them in the US, or they need to pay her if they are going to sell in the US.

aaand she is just now bringing this up why? it should have been brought up a while ago. shes doing it now cause blu-ray won the war, real nice lady.

Dont patents expire after 10 years? Maybe longer?

Is this woman serious?

They will just throw some cash at her, she'll shut up and everyone will go about their own business.

@AngelCage: The lawsuit has nothing to do with the fact that these companies are making the diodes but that they are using a process that she invented to make them. Her patents were originally filed back in 1988 (check out patent #s 4,904,618 and 5,252,499 for more information). My only real question is why such a lawsuit was not filed much earlier. From what I see, her first lawsuit for infringment on these patents was filed in 2005 against Philips Lumileds, and Philips reached a settlement with her already. I also do not know if she gets anything from such a settlement considering she was a Columbia University professor when the patents were filed. Some universities require full rights to anything developed by their professors, but I do not know the terms of any agreements that she has with the university.

Urm, one person vs. 30 of the world's largest and most powerful electronics companies...I wonder who's likely to win this one? (sarc)

We can definitely expect delays on so many releases now because of this.....

i don't get it....this is bad for Sony right?

Hhhhhhhmmmmmmm. IDK what to say.

You smell that? I do. That smells awful. Smells alot like BS to me.

I think this whole thing is a load of garbage.

Ugh, more red tape. I swear, if it's not a format war it's a patent infringement. The same thing happened a few years ago with the rumble motors in the DualShock 2 controller, so now what?

Oh, and helios515? I sincerely doubt it.

does this mean the price of a PS3 will go up?

Dont you just love the smell of BS in the morning, I mean, cease and desist? Why hasn't Rothschild just cashed in and let things be?

Sue, Sue, Sue is just about all anyone does anymore.

In case anyone is interested, I suggest reading Michael Crichton's novel "Next".

Although a little weak as a techno thriller, it explains a lot about how patents are being (ab)used by companies and universities (the romance is about gene research).

another pointless lawsuit ... i'm sure there is very little in it ...and anyway look what sony did to immersion .. that took years to resolve !! Blu ray will be dead and buried long before this finishes if they have a case

@markharris31

For any of those complaining about frivolous lawsuits, this is as far from that as you can possibly get. Next time you invent something and patent it, I'm sure you'll be perfectly happy to let any and all companies/persons use that technology for free, right?
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Yeah, if you REALLY invented something and someone steal/use your invention without your autorization you HAVE TO lawsuit that person/group... but if you only IMAGINE something, if you fill a patent about some vage idea you have the last nigth, a idea so common and natural, a idea with millions of potential present/past uses, a idea wich currently is already in use, but noone in the world had a patent about it cause is so natural and maybe the only way to make something (short wavelength ligth emiting diodes... what a genius) you should not be abble to sue noone for that.

If you can show me a finished product / beta product / concept product mady by Gertrude Neumark Rothschild BEFORE the very first use -even experimental, not in a finished product- of the short wavelength ligth emiting diodes crap, then i will eat my words and call myself a morron

Even more, a lot of these lawsuits rest in some not-so-specific patents. Saying things like "Diode of short wavelength" isn't a very clear description and in the fact every single modern optical media device can fall in that description... and every future laser media device will fall too.

If these lawsuits are correct, The family of Julio Verne should sue NASA, US MARINE and a lot of private companies for things like submarines, travels to the moon and some more...

If still are survivors of Leonardo Davinchi's bloodline they should sue the same companies... and sue the family of julio verne too.

Maybe i should fill a patent record about "A vehicle of some sort, with a computer managed fuel injection system or a Air natural carburated fuel injection system, with 2,3, 4 or even more wheels; wich use mineral fosil derived fuel or a mixture of fosil fuel with natural fuel. the vehicle have some disc brakind devices mounted in every wheel, with an hidraulic system wich in response to a pressure from the user (know since now as DRIVER) in a pedal will make some kind of oil be pumped from a master cilinder, to secondary cilinders mounted in the brake discs ans make a coulple of metal things presure the discs making the vehicle slow down.

The vehicle will have a AC power system bult in and thanks to that you will can use a radio, dvd players, computes, videogame systems, vacuums and all kind of electrical third party devices"


Hummm i should fill that patent and then id a coulple of years, sue Ford motor company first for stel my idea when they make the very first car that fall under that description and then i will start a sue campain and make Toyota, ford, crysler, ferrary, yamaha and every single automotor company in the world... every company but not mitsubishi motor Company, cause i just LOVE my eclipse.... i will forgive them.


Sounds very stupid rigth???? but to me a "short wavelength light emiter diode" lawsuit is even more stupid.

This is a pretty common thing. Companies try to and sometimes succed in filng a patent with slight alterations to try and escape paying for the items they use and sometimes they get caught it seems as though Sony has been caught a few times here in the last few years with it's hand in the cookie jar. We'll see what comes from this.

Patent law is bunk.

Doesn't matter who "thought" of the idea first. Take it to market and make it successful or your "thought" ain't worth squat.

Inventors have to do this sort of thing all the time. Did you know that a cigarette pack is patented by one guy and all companies have to pay him. Rumble in controllers is the same way. This is not some hostile action, the lady is just filing to get money for her patent. I bet Sony would not let her use one of there patents for free. There is also no way for Sony to have known this lady had this patent. It is actually the patent offices fault for letting it pass, when sony and who ever else submitted it.

I have never heard of anything more stupid and idotic in regards to patents and laws. Greed doesn't come close to describing this.

Well if they infringed copyright then they wil get what they deserve at the end of the day

For any of those complaining about frivolous lawsuits, this is as far from that as you can possibly get. Next time you invent something and patent it, I'm sure you'll be perfectly happy to let any and all companies/persons use that technology for free, right?

Oh, and btw, it is NOT the patent owner's responsibility to find any and all external applications of their technology at any given moment. It is the responsibility of those who use the technology, be it a company or person, to investigate whether or not they are using patented technology and then offer compensation to the patent holder. Therefore, if you have a patent, and someone uses that technology without licensing it from you, you have every right to sue for compensation when you discover this unlicensed use.

you don't get rich by creating something good anymore, you get rich by creating something good and then suing when someone tries to use it, lol. It's such a sad, sad state the world is in...