Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Patent dispute: Playstation 3: Import ban for Europe!

The import of the Sony games console to Europe, first stop for ten days. In a court in The Hague issued a preliminary injunction. Now there are ten thousands laid devices in the port of Rotterdam and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on the customs, such as the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported. The devices should not be first transported to their European destination countries.

Sony and LG to throw each other of patent infringement. LG convened in The Hague to the European Patent Office filed a complaint against the Playstation 3 LG accuses Sony of infringing several patents in the PS3 the Blu-ray technology. A ten day long halt in supplies would be the Playstation 3 does not completely disappear from the market, with individual stores for a lack of supply could lead to additional constraints.

According to the British newspaper "Sony leads a 100,000 consoles per week to Europe. The stocks of the PS3 would be around 6,500 in Germany and 10,000 estimated in the UK. It could take two to three weeks for the camp in Europe would be empty, the paper wrote. Sony, LG accused in December 2010 in the U.S.

patent infringement and trying to stop the importation of some cell phones from South Korea to America. LG struck back with its own patent lawsuits that target a broad range of consumer electronics oriented - including TVs and cameras. That LG is just Sony patent violations in the Blu-ray Disc accused is not without a certain irony.

The Japanese group has the DVD successor was one of the lead co-developed and its main supporters in the format war with HD DVD. If LG would push through the charges, fines on Sony for the millions already selling Playstation 3 consoles.

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