All PlayStation 3 consoles could be impounded and destroyed
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he Sony PlayStation 3 's IBM-built Cell processor infringes a 1991 hardware patent and all existing units should be impounded and destroyed. That's according to a complaint filed against Sony which alleges that the PS3 Cell processor infringes US patent number 5,056,000.
If the complaint is upheld, Sony could amazingly be forced to destroy all its Cell processors and to redesign the PlayStation 3 from the ground up.
The lawsuit was filed by US company Parallel Processing which says its patent, "Synchronized Parallel Processing with Shared Memory" was issued in October of 1991. The patent explains how new processor architecture could break a program "into smaller concurrent processes running in different parallel processors," and then resynchronize them. This would make processing times much quicker.
"On information and belief, Defendant Sony Corporation of America has infringed and continues to infringe on the '000 Patent by making, using, importing, offering for sale and/or selling products among other things, covered by one or more claims of the '000 Patent, including, but not limited to, Sony Playstation 3," states Parallel Processing in the lawsuit.
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PS3 in more hot water
It says that Sony's infringement of its patent has caused it irreparable harm and monetary damage.
Parallel Processing wants all PlayStation 3 consoles which use the Cell processor (that would be all of them) to be impounded and destroyed. It also wants Sony to say sorry, and to reimburse all the money it claims to have lost.
Of course, it's extremely unlikely that Sony will be forced to do any of those things, but it's certainly something to keep an eye on.
god bless those who brought sony machine -
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End of Sony.
And that crappy Ps consoles and expensive cut throat prices.
welcome M$ -
wow wow...interesting....no wonder no one buy ps3...those who bought it..smash it immediately....
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if i patent something... and another company, using its own research comes up with something which is close to my patent, and can show that it came to that invention all by itself, i cannot sue the company and make them stop using it...
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They will just buy over the patent lah..
just like what Nvidia did with 3DFX. 3DFX invented "SLI" during the late 1990s.
Now its Nvidia trademark. -
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But do u know that many things now came about becuse of small patents filed decades ago.Originally posted by the Bear:if i patent something... and another company, using its own research comes up with something which is close to my patent, and can show that it came to that invention all by itself, i cannot sue the company and make them stop using it...
And also how do u know where to get the cue from if the original patent in 1991 did not exist.
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so, like that, no one can build a CPU at all?
they owe it to the guy who built the transistor?
i patent the idea of parallel processing, and no one can do that anymore?
it's just like MonSatan tried to patent the Neem plant.. no one was allowed to use the plant even when it grew in their yard..
sheesh... -
M$ is laughing now
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i think i can go smash my multiple-core machines too..................
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building a transistor and cpu are 2 diff things.. in this case the transistor is part of the cpu...so long the original transistor guy did not build the cpu..he cannot bring claims to it..because his patent of transistor did not teach how to build cpu.Originally posted by the Bear:so, like that, no one can build a CPU at all?
they owe it to the guy who built the transistor?
i patent the idea of parallel processing, and no one can do that anymore?
it's just like MonSatan tried to patent the Neem plant.. no one was allowed to use the plant even when it grew in their yard..
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There goes my plan of upgrading my PS2 to PS3 =P
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i tot patents are only valid for 10yrs?
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news of the cell was already around since 1999...
think read somewhere...the cell was supposed to be in Ps2..but due to hardware and design limits, it was omitted and instead the emotion engine was used..maybe EE = a bastard version of the cell.. -
the cell processor was patented by Sony guru Ken Kutaragi in 1999.
so how did the patent got approved if another patent was around??!!
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anyway i dun buy into Sony hype.
i am yet to see human emotions calculated on the ps2 as claimed back in 1999
bullsh&t -
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im not going to switch to xbox. because it is by ms.
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Microsoft is no better either.
European Commission fined Microsoft SGD$1 billion for antitrust with the Window Media Player bundled with XP/Vista -
why must those who have ps3 must destroy their set?
sian but this news...i want buy ps3 de haiz -
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They will just buy the company's patent, like many other major company did.
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sweeeeet