In article ,
I. Care wrote:
A DSP chip used in multimedia systems and DAC's.


http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...095541,00.asp?
kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

or

http://tinyurl.com/327avj

Good on TI. Not only did they win the infringement case, but Acacia
has to pay their litigation costs _and_ their patents were ruled invalid.


Francois.

[Arny Krueger]

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In article
,
I. Care wrote:
A DSP chip used in multimedia systems and DAC's.


http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...095541,00.asp?
kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

or

http://tinyurl.com/327avj

Good on TI. Not only did they win the infringement case,
but Acacia
has to pay their litigation costs _and_ their patents
were ruled invalid.

Same thing happened to Carver when they sued API, claiming to have invented
the subwoofer. Carver did have a patent. Ironically, Carver had invalidated
that patent with one of their own products-prior art.

Furthermore, everybody that Carver had bullied into paying license fees, had
a pretty good prima facie court case for recovering their payments.