“Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit,” Martyn Williams reports for IDG News Service.
“The suit, which came to light over the weekend, was filed on Feb. 16 in Marshall, Texas. The eastern Texas city is fast becoming one of the leading locations of patent infringement lawsuits in the U.S. thanks to speedy trials and juries that more often than not find in favor of the plaintiff,” Williams reports.
“In the complaint Texas MP3 Technologies alleges infringement on U.S. patent 7,065,417, which was awarded in June 2006 to multimedia chip-maker SigmaTel and covers ‘an MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a method for reproducing sound data compressed using the MPEG method,'” Williams reports.
Williams reports, “Just over a month later SigmaTel said that it had sold the patent to a Dallas-based patent licensing agency because it believed the agency would be better able to take advantage of its potential value.”
Read the full article here.
Well, when Dan Quale tried to do somethiung aboutthe runaway lawyer system in America, they shut him down real quick. Washington is owned and paid for by lawyers.
See this phony ambulance chasing Edwards guy!
The US have the most stupid patent protection laws of the world. Period!
Muhahahah, i got a Patent for a “portable music playing audio device and apparatus”
I’M GONNA SUE YOU ALL TO HELL!!111!!oneone!1
how many Patents are there for the same thing?!?
this is getting insane! i hope the Lawyers from Apple stomp this sh!t in the ground.
I give you a 1/10 for effort, but you’re a bad troll.
Don’t bring John Edwards into this. He’s done way more for the poor than you probably ever have even thought of doing. Shame on you.
Sounds like Texas has a new speed trap!
Ok, maybe I am confused. Didnt a different company just get a 1.5 billion judgeent vs mp3???
Does everybody own mp3 except those who are using it????
Help!!!
Hey, maybe I own mp3???
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“Don’t bring John Edwards into this. He’s done way more for the poor than you probably ever have even thought of doing. Shame on you.”
Yes Yes, LIBERAL ALERT!!!!! TYPICAL LIBERAL – Hear that Libs, don’t bother getting a job, call John Edwards to Sue for ya!!! Better yet, to the “Poor People”, no need getting a job, Let’s just Tax the Hell out of Rich People and give the money to a bunch of unemployed bums (Make sure you tax all those Rich People GOOD so we can have free health care, free housing, free food handout, etc for drug dealers and other people not interested in employment)!!!
Make Me Wanna Puke! Maybe the “poor people” ought to “help themselves” and quit making “suing” and “taxing” SUCCESSFUL people their plan for success…
So is Apple’s AAC mpeg based?
“Maybe the “poor people” ought to “help themselves”…”
Spoken like someone who’s never been in poverty…
OK, the article mentioned that these suits are going through Texas cause they are so friendly to the bringer of the suit.
Follow the money, there must be something backroom going on here.
Since its been historically documented that that court is bias towards the suit bringer, Apple should file for a change of venue.
Ah Yes, darknite pegged it! We should have all know…
From: darknite
“…suits are going through Texas cause they are so friendly to the bringer of the suit.
Follow the money, there must be something backroom going on here.”
Back room money deals going on in TEXAS!???!?!?!!! Whoa what a shocker!!!!!
That room must be down the hall from the “Back Room Oil Deals”, “Back Room Presidential Deals” and the “Back Room Defense Contracts”
… oh the hits just keep coming when ya live in Texas!
Funny how ya never see this kind of info when yur watching FoxNews huh! Conservative et all
F*ck MP3. Switch to AAC, problem solved.
It seems that you guys are a bit confused.
Moon and Hwang are the inventors of the first MP3 player so naturally this patent has their names on it. Unfortunately for them their company, MPman was not a commercial success:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiger_Labs_MPMan_F10
The patent ownership changed hands a few times before getting into SigmaTel’s hands when they purchased the Rio business from D&M. From there they sold it to these attorneys in Texas, providing indemnification to all their customers. For future sales all a manufacturer has to do is to use a Sigmatel chip and they are home-free.
Hope this helps!