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Da Dego · 8th Sep 2006, 17:26

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/09...es_overturned/

FredsFriend · 8th Sep 2006, 17:29

Wow if you are going to jump in with both feet at least make sure that you aren't going to hit bottom. I wonder how many people will lose jobs over this

Sinner666 · 8th Sep 2006, 17:43

Who honestly did not see this coming?

I sure as hell saw this coming.

DeX · 8th Sep 2006, 18:04

I sure as hell didn't see this coming.

Can anyone tell why the courts changed their minds? Surely it would take longer than that to prove that SanDisk are in fact using their own technology to decode mp3s instead of the technology that has been patented.

FeRaL · 8th Sep 2006, 18:44

To quote specofdust from the first news thread on this subject...

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Originally Posted by specofdust

According to the right honourable gentleman(slashdot), mathmatical patents are not legal in the Eu, which means this thing, is bogus. It'll be intresting to see, assuming the above fact is true, how quickly this gets thrown out of court and sandisk counter sue for screwing up their show.

Yeah, can you say, the headlights of an 18 wheeler?

DeX · 8th Sep 2006, 22:07

But if that were the reason it was thrown out, how would it get passed the first stages of the court order? Surely someone didn't just forget that mathematical patents don't apply in the EU. How would the Italian company even get their patent application accepted if that type of patent didn't exist? Why would none of the news sites mention it? Maybe I have the wrong end of the stick here.

yahooadam · 8th Sep 2006, 23:11

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If Sandisk ends up prevailing again, one would have to wonder if there would not be some legal recompense for the company's losses due to the IFA debacle.

Surely they would have to sue the government or something, because it wasn't sisivel that actually caused the damage to their stalls

Paradigm Shifter · 9th Sep 2006, 19:20

I posted a link to the BBC in the other thread about this before this was posted...

It's nice to see Sandisk win, though. Although suing people? The police would never have gotten involved if Sisvel hadn't got a rod up their rear... so Sisvel are the ones to blame.

ralph.pickering · 10th Sep 2006, 01:39

Um, Sandisk haven't won the case yet. They've only had a siezure order overturned, which is a partial success, but nowhere close to winning the whole battle. Still, I'll be interested to see how this turns out. Patents on things like MP3 and JPEG seriously bug me. It's no wonder you double the price of a computer when you put software on it - every man and his donkey are claiming a few cents here and there for some or other dubious "invention". B****rds! Whatever happened to doing things for the greater good?

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DeX Mube Codder Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,103	I sure as hell didn't see this coming. Can anyone tell why the courts changed their minds? Surely it would take longer than that to prove that SanDisk are in fact using their own technology to decode mp3s instead of the technology that has been patented. __________________ Play my game: Shyguy's Cave of Death! If you dont have the time to check your spelling and grammar, you dont have the time to post! -Liquid K9

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DeX Mube Codder Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,103	But if that were the reason it was thrown out, how would it get passed the first stages of the court order? Surely someone didn't just forget that mathematical patents don't apply in the EU. How would the Italian company even get their patent application accepted if that type of patent didn't exist? Why would none of the news sites mention it? Maybe I have the wrong end of the stick here. __________________ Play my game: Shyguy's Cave of Death! If you dont have the time to check your spelling and grammar, you dont have the time to post! -Liquid K9

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ralph.pickering Supermodder Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Posts: 321	Um, Sandisk haven't won the case yet. They've only had a siezure order overturned, which is a partial success, but nowhere close to winning the whole battle. Still, I'll be interested to see how this turns out. Patents on things like MP3 and JPEG seriously bug me. It's no wonder you double the price of a computer when you put software on it - every man and his donkey are claiming a few cents here and there for some or other dubious "invention". B****rds! Whatever happened to doing things for the greater good?