[opendtv] Broadcasters Sued over Digital Patent

Another interesting patent story. I wonder how this one might represent technology lost to the world if the inventor died. Stupid system. ;-) 

See:<http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2008/04/broadcasters_sued_over_digital.php>


Broadcasters Sued over Digital Patent  AP
ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are among the more than dozen companies sued by a Pennsylvania company that says it has the patent on the technology needed for next February’s digital switchover, the Associated Press reports. The claim by Rembrandt Inc., which acquired the patent in 2004 from an AT&T spinoff, could add "tens of millions of dollars" to the cost of the switchover by demanding royalties related to the patent, the wire service says, citing the nonprofit American Antitrust Institute. 
-- Danny King
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- Tom

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