Lucent vs. Microsoft
Lucent and Microsoft are going at it again. Lucent Technologies is sueing Microsoft for an alleged breach of patent rights involving the Xbox 360.
The patent, 5,227,878, was issued to Lucent on July 13th 1993 and called “Adaptive Coding and Decoding of Frames and Fields of Video”.
It’s not the first time Lucent and Microsoft have crossed swords on patents, nor indeed this one. An action started two years ago and in August 2005, the judge presiding in that case granted a summary judgement of invalidity because of a typo in the patent. That forced Lucent to get a certificate from the US patent office to correct the typo, which was issued at the end of October last year.
But, said Lucent in its filing at the end of March, Microsoft has infringed this patent by releasing the Xbox 360 console, which has MPEG2 tech - it’s alleged that’s a breach of the Lucent patent.
Typos or not, Lucent wants to take Microsoft to court. Hopefully they’ve hired a better spellchecker this time.
I wonder what the typo was the first time around?
Judge: It says here you want to ‘pwn Microsoft’ … what is “pwn”?
Lucent: That’s ‘own’, Your Honor.
Judge: But it says ‘pwn’
Lucent: Yes … well …
Judge: INVALID
(source)
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1 opinion for Lucent vs. Microsoft
Enki
Apr 5, 2006 at 5:47 am
I LOLed. :)
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