A Dutch court yesterday lifted the injunction banning the import of Sony PlayStation 3s into Europe. LG and Sony have been locked in a patent dispute over BluRay technology. LG won an injunction over a week ago which left PlayStations locked in Dutch warehouses. Dutch law allowed LG to seek a 10-day temporary injunction while …

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Friday 11th March 2011 10:26 GMT Anonymous Coward

I wonder

how many other sites will bother to report this, and just rely on their usual sensationalist one-sided story reporting....

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1. Friday 11th March 2011 11:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  RE: I wonder
  
  What?
  
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Friday 11th March 2011 10:37 GMT Fisher39

Huh?

Nope you've got me there. Is this report of the facts sensational or one sided or is not news-worthy? Or are you congratulating el Reg for the courageous reporting?

/baffled

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Friday 11th March 2011 12:19 GMT DrXym

Still trying to figure out what LG's inventions were

If you look at the patents in question they appear to describe file structures and data formats for subtitles. That's it. Where's the invention here? I am very surprised that something as trivial and obvious as a file structure can be patented, let alone patented in the EU.

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1. Friday 11th March 2011 14:22 GMT MJI
  
  That is it - subtitles and file structure.
  
  Sony only invented the bulk of BluRay with Phillips and Matsushita, so they apparently don't matter.
  
  Fail because LG did
  
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