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Patent Infringement suit filed against Nintendo, Sony, Apple

Posted Jul 7, 2009 at 2:00PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: News Tags: California, Nintendo, patent, Sony

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Newport Beach, California-based firm, Shared Memory Graphics LLC, is taking out the big guns and going after three of the top tech makers in the industry, namely Apple, Nintendo and Sony, alleging that these companies have infringed on their patent rights.

In trouble.

The infringed patents are reportedly to be "two [patents] that describe ways in which microprocessors fine-tune graphics by balancing the flow of data from various sources," explained WSJ Online.

In fact, it is even said that the patents originally belonged to one Alliance Semiconductor Corporation, who later on sold the patents to Shared Memory.

The lawsuit is going against the three companies for the supposed use of the patented graphic accelerator systems on the DS, PSP, PS2 and iPhone/ iPod Touch.

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Via Wall Street Journal Online

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The funny thing about patents is that they cover inventions/ideas AND processes. The theory is that there is realy only one way to produce something specific which must be discovered by purpose or accident.

After all, if you come up with a process to turn coal into gold, you should have full rights to make money from any person or company using that specific process.

It becomes incredibly vague in terms of computers however. Is the algorithm: check to see if x is true, if x is true, do y, if x is false, do z really a process?

# lol — hypercoyote360 2009-07-07 17:02

lol nice chevy. Yeah, I think I'm going to file a patent for atomic structures. Then I can sue everyone. I can even sue people for making babies....

# ... — TheLastGuitarHero 2009-07-07 18:27

Yeah but Rosa Parks beat Einstein to the light bulb idea, so she should sue him.

# @ ChevyJackson — SeRosiS 2009-07-07 20:58

Einstein didn't invent the bomb, only the theory that was used to make it.

# lol — L0NG 2009-07-07 21:39

soon sony, *****tendo , and f*** apple will pay a lot of money to f*** "Alliance Semiconductor Corporation"

lol so big prices for sony consoles and no profit for f*** sony

^______________ _____^

# sick money — phongthan999 2009-07-08 02:18

if those 3 lose, they will going to rise the prices. Then we're all have to pay for it.

sick.

# Well, — PinCushion 2009-07-08 04:06

unless I misunderstood, this is pretty much the same thing. These patents seem to be for how it could work. Of course, in the case of Einstein, who would want to be legally responsible for killing that many people?

# Bombs go boom. — MidnightBlue 2009-07-08 05:54

If I may intercede, "The Bomb" was Robert Oppenheimer (Manhattan Project). It was dropped at 5:29:45 (Mountain War Time) on July 16, 1945. In a white blaze that stretched from the basin of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico to the still-dark skies, "The Gadget" ushered in the Atomic Age. The light of the explosion then turned orange as the atomic fireball began shooting upwards at 360 feet per second, reddening and pulsing as it cooled. The characteristic mushroom cloud of radioactive vapor materialized at 30,000 feet. Beneath the cloud, all that remained of the soil at the blast site were fragments of jade green radioactive glass created by the heat of the reaction.

Wait, what were we talking about again?

# STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER! — Hekynn 2009-07-08 08:55

I just wish these company's would stop fighting each other suing left and right at other companys. jeez!

# ... — mysterysword 2009-07-08 09:10

$hared Memory Graphics LLC equals $cientology? They won't win anyway...

# How about this interpretation? — downloader1122 2009-07-08 09:44

Females retain water (unconsciously) on a regular basis, balancing it to certain areas of the body to fine tune their graphical appearance.

So what now? That's got to be prior art

They are just copying ideas from nature.

# O.o — omgeggman 2009-07-08 11:03

I don't think Shared Memory is very well-known. Compared to multi-billion companies like Nintendo, Sony and Apple I don't think that they stand much of a chance. Maybe Nintendo, Apple and Sony are finally going to work together?

# Didn't you forget to say "Thanks UC Berkeley?" — Hotsuma 2009-07-08 12:07

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/neutronics/todd/nuc.bomb.html

I wish I could sound smart too.

# As someone else stated... — deathmetal 2009-07-08 18:06

These lawsuits make the Patents office look like a goddamn joke.

# This is why — stalker777 2009-07-08 21:46

This is why the pirate party is needed.

# Well... — NagaTen 2009-07-10 04:31

Tesla was the creator of modern light bulbs, Thomas Edison's design were... *inspired* by Tesla's. (Happy Birthday to Nikola Tesla BTW)

And the bomb was acutally invented by the chinese since they were the inventors of gunpowder, no? ^__^

Einstein developed the A-Bomb as part of Project Manhattan.

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