re: announcement for studs1980
< The issue being having a patent means nothing at the end of the day if you cannot fight for it.............. What i am saying to you is there is NO such thing as a certainty ............... Sure QPX/IPR now hold the patents and they are valid...........The issue will always remain how do you enforce and prove your patent is being violated??? >
I'd certainly agree with you. in that ...... 'there is NO such thing as a certainty' .......
But the rewards are certainly there for those that manage to "win" .......
Here is some cases that were copied off/from the QPSX/IPR site:
http://qpsx.com.au/press-room/industry_news.html
INDUSTRY NEWS
20/04/06 AOL pays to settle patent dispute 24/04/06 Rambus wins $306 million from Hynix 20/04/06 Microsoft, Autodesk lose patent-infringement suit - to pay $133 million 19/04/06 Microsoft, Autodesk Lose $133 Million Patent Verdict 14/04/06 Jury Awards TiVo $73 Million in Patent Case 06/04/06 Lucent sues Microsoft over Xbox 05/04/06 Mary Kay Ordered to Pay Over $41 Million to TriStrata 03/04/06 General Patent is Successful in its 23rd Litigation to Enforce Acticon's Patents 03/04/06 Acacia Technologies Licenses Multi-Dimensional Bar Code Technology to Boston Scientific 15/03/06 Sony suffers a second shock on the DualShock $91 million patent verdict
This will be an interesting year for IPR I feel.
dj
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