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[Noah Kadner]

Company name please…

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[Dee Cortex]

Read about this on DVD list…
It was AIX productions with ‘prior art’

on March 10, 2010, InMotion filed a lawsuit against, ___ in the eastern
District of Texas (civil
action No. 2:10-cv-00084) claiming patent infringement of US Patent NO.
6,526,219 (the’219
Patent). I have enclosed a courtesy complaint … BLAH BLAH BLAH… the ‘219
Patent discloses
innovatative video indexing technologies that provide pictures and motion
imagery in windows
on a display device as a way of identifying the contents of a video program on
a recorded
medium (e.g. optical discs, tapes,harddrives, etc.). US Patent 6,574,416
discloses technologies
that used stored pictures, as opposed to the recorded program itself, to
monitor the progress
of a video program sequencing operation such as fast forward or rewind.

Some of the parties named are:

penthouse digital media productions, Inc.; BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT; NEW
LINE;
WARNER BROS.; ANCHOR BAY; MAGNOLIA PICTURES; THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY ETC.

Dee Cortex
Editors’ Hideaway, NY

[Noah Kadner]

Patent law is in dire, dire need of a complete overhaul if not abolishment at this stage in the development of technology.

Noah

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[Eric Pautsch]

Yep!

Basically its cheaper to settle than to hire a lawyer to make out the initial paperwork on a BS lawsuit.

What goes round comes round though…so whomever’s involved will get payback eventually.

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