Sony sued over Cell chips

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited August 2007 in Science & Tech
A firm called Parallel Processing, based out of Newport Beach, California has filed suit against Sony for their Cell CPU technology. Claiming irreparable harm and monetary damages, the firm's yet-unused patent rears its head to bite Sony on the patoot. The firm wants money, injunctions, etcetera.

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One only wonders what this firm has been doing with their time the last two years. The Cell has been in the media for a few years, hey?

Comments

  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited August 2007
    The patent system is bull****. Good idea, bad implementation, and rubber-stamping employees.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited August 2007
    They want all the Cell CPU's recalled? lol now thats funny!!! Let see them get all those PS3's back from each child.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2007
    Why sue Sony? For being the end customer of an IBM developed OEM part...?

    Interestingly enough, IBM have publicly said they may use the CELL processor for other applications and it is not exclusive to the PS3 by any means. IBM own the chip, it's just branded for Sony.

    These patent chasing flunkies are suing the wrong firm. The US patent system as Matt (Keebs) so rightly says, it's a rotten shambles of paper work junkets and bad management.

    I am now off to patent "visual light spectrums displayed without amplification and viewed using the naked eye". Yes, I am going to patent the sun and then charge anyone who looks or uses it.
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