Discovery(!) Sues Amazon Over Kindle Patent
Discovery(!) Sues Amazon Over Kindle Patent
Posted 03/19/2009 at 1:01pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Discovery Communications, The Discovery Channel’s parent company, is currently locked in a legal battle with Amazon over the Kindle 2, claiming that it violates some of their very own patents.
The lawsuit, which claims that Amazon violated their patent for an Electronic Book Security and Copyright Protection System, was filed all the way back in 1999 and was issued on November 20, 2007. Discovery is asking Amazon for an unspecified amount of cash.
Evidently Discovery’s founder, John Hendricks, is a pretty well known inventor, and back in the 1990’s was working on the technology to digitize content. His patents for digitizing TV were sold, but the e-reader patents were kept.
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SpazzAttack
March 20, 2009 at 5:15am
Amazon.com has been patent trolling themselves (remember one click?). Now, it's time for them to get a taste of their own medicine.
Vegan
March 19, 2009 at 5:17pm
I guess you don't actually have to make something to be an "inventor" these days. Just come up with an idea, patent it, and then wait until someone else wants to make it.
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