Article: LG vs Sony - The Lawsuits Are Over!

[tthousand]

You can view the page at http://psx-scene.com/forums/content....uits-Are-Over!

[owanef]

I HOPE THE DEVS KNOW ABOUT THIS...!!!!!

[dagrimmreepa]

Ugh...what else could have happened? It's just two corporations having a dick measuring contest, throwing some money around to let their stockholders know that they take their patents seriously, then settling out of court/dropping their cases before the judge can officially come to the conclusion that both parties are ****ing retarded and are wasting the court's time.

[tthousand]

And it sounds like neither one of them had the patent they were claiming was being infringed upon, that both of the patents had actually expired threes years earlier (if I am reading this right).

[Tranced]

Well if those seized consoles are now released to the public of Netherlands that means more consoles for them to jailbreak been on a much lower firmware.

[tthousand]

I think they were released after being held for about a week, it not sooner, atleast that is what my memory is trying to tell me

[Lightbringer88]

And it sounds like neither one of them had the patent they were claiming was being infringed upon, that both of the patents had actually expired threes years earlier (if I am reading this right).

The patent hadn't expired yet, the agreement between the two companies did. If I remember correctly, when a patent expires it can't just 'be renewed', that's for copyrights and trademarks.