Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: jasonditz on April 07, 2006, 07:56:16 PM
Title: Lucent Lawsuit: Recall all 360's
Post by: jasonditz on April 07, 2006, 07:56:16 PM
http://www.gamernode.com/article/866
Apparently Lucent (formerly Bell Labs) is claiming patent violations in the 360 and asking that it be pulled from the shelves.
Title: RE: Lucent Lawsuit: Recall all 360's
Post by: MysticGohan on April 07, 2006, 07:59:02 PM
lol that would be hilarious.
Title: RE: Lucent Lawsuit: Recall all 360's
Post by: jasonditz on April 07, 2006, 08:25:02 PM
It'll probably wind up like the Sony Dual Shock lawsuit and just linger the whole generation.
You never know though. Sega got absolutely reamed in Atari's patent lawsuit
Title: RE: Lucent Lawsuit: Recall all 360's
Post by: KDR_11k on April 07, 2006, 08:58:47 PM
No mention of "Lucent wants all XC's pulled from shelves" on a seriousnews site. Perhaps Gamernode is just throwing that in there to add sensationalism. Forcing MS to pull the product is not profitable, forcing them to pay huge danages plus a license fee on each console sold is.
Title: RE: Lucent Lawsuit: Recall all 360's
Post by: jasonditz on April 08, 2006, 07:04:36 AM
Every patent lawsuit I've ever seen involved a "stop violating our patent" provision, from the DualShock lawsuit to the eBay "buy it now" lawsuit to the endless Blackberry lawsuits. I don't think you can sue someone into signing a licensing agreement, rather the lawsuit would be for past damages and an order to not do it again in tthe future. That's why these lawsuits generally get settled out of court in the end.
Title: RE: Lucent Lawsuit: Recall all 360's
Post by: UncleBob on April 08, 2006, 06:53:36 PM
