Firm Sues Sony Over Cell Processor 330
An anonymous reader writes that earlier this month, Sony received word of a lawsuit from a Newport Beach company called Parallel Processing. They've filed against the electronics giant alleging that the Cell processor, used in the PlayStation 3, infringes on a patent they own. They've made the somewhat outrageous demand that every infringing chip (and console) be 'impounded and destroyed'. From the article at Next Generation: "The patent, 'Synchronized Parallel Processing with Shared Memory' was issued in October 1991. It describes a high-speed computer that breaks down a program 'into smaller concurrent processes running in different parallel processors' and resynchronizes the program for faster processing times ... Parallel Processing said that Sony's alleged actions have caused 'irreparable harm and monetary damage' to the company."
in other news... (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks god IBM quit building those RS/6000 SP2 system parallel thingies.
Re:hah (Score:5, Funny)
In a related story (Score:2, Funny)
Live by the sword... (Score:1, Funny)
unreasonable copyright claims
tomato
SmashMyPS3 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How would that work? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes. That's why we heard people are installing, uninstalling and reinstalling Windows all the times. Now we know it's not because it is unstable.
Re:Infringes my "electronic brain" patent (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Infringes my "electronic brain" patent (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hah (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cray had prior art/implementation a decade earl (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hah (Score:1, Funny)
Just try it! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Infringes my "electronic brain" patent (Score:3, Funny)
I have a completely fair solution. (Score:3, Funny)
Every penny.
I think this would be an eminently fair solution, and I'm confident Sony would accept it.
Re:Cray had prior art/implementation a decade earl (Score:2, Funny)
"Impounding and destorying" (Score:5, Funny)
Sony's response: (Score:3, Funny)
Fine. But we're not helping you find either of the two we sold.
Re:hah (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Infringes my "electronic brain" patent (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Infringes my "electronic brain" patent (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it does seem they make "Patent Lawsuit Cases"