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SanDisk faces MP3 licence dispute (BBC)

SanDisk faces MP3 licence dispute (BBC)

Posted Sep 5, 2006 16:15 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: SanDisk faces MP3 licence dispute (BBC) by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: SanDisk faces MP3 licence dispute (BBC)

Pity it wouldn't work? Look at the Blackberry/NTP case, which got very close to a similar result. NTP eventually took the money instead of forcing the shutdown of the Blackberry system, but the prospect of losing Blackberry service did draw some inside-the-Beltway attention to the idea of patent reform, briefly.


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SanDisk faces MP3 licence dispute (BBC)

Posted Sep 5, 2006 22:23 UTC (Tue) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]

Well, first you'd have to acquire a suitable patent somewhere, which is a pretty big first step...

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