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Apple, Nintendo, Sony sued for patent infringement

By Jim DalrympleJuly 6, 2009, 3:22 pm PT

Shared Memory Graphics filed a lawsuit last Thursday accusing Apple, Nintendo and Sony of copyright infringement, according to court documents obtained by The Loop.

iPhone3gsphoto 239x300 Apple, Nintendo, Sony sued for patent infringementFiled in the District Court, Western District of Arkansas, Fayetteville Division, the lawsuit claims that all three companies violate the ’664 patent. The patent, held by Shared Memory Graphics since 1998, describes a “Shared Memory Graphics Accelerator Systems.”

The patent describes the accelerator system as enhancing “performance by integrating a portion of the frame buffer storage space and the graphics accelerator on the same chip while at the ame time maintaining the flexibility to expand the frame buffer size as needed by additionally incorporating an off-chip frame buffer memory element.”

The lawsuit claims that Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch infringe on this method of graphic acceleration by incorporating on-chip and off-chip frame buffer memory elements.

The company is claiming the popular Nintendo Wii and GameCube used its technology and that Sony’s PS2 and PSP infringe on the patents.

Shared Memory Graphics is asking the court for an injunction against all infringing products and monetary damages.

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2 Responses to “Apple, Nintendo, Sony sued for patent infringement”

  1. Chris McCloud says:

    Doing some quick research on the company turned up some “fly-by-night” indicators:
    They’re LLC was filed just last month: http://sos.state.ar.us/corps/search_corps.php?DETAIL=274185&corp_type_id=7&corp_name=&agent_search=&agent_city=&agent_state=&filing_number=&cmd=
    The building they’re in is also host to:
    http://ar-data.com
    http://nationalcrimesearch.com
    http://www.courthouseconcepts.net

    The person who filed for the LLC was Cheryl Willeford, who is listed on LinkedIn to work for acaciatechnologies.com (See http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cheryl-willeford/13/641/ab1), which seems to specialize in getting royalty payments and such for patents.

  2. Mccuin says:

    It seems Netflix will finally find its way on to the Nintendo Wii (currently the only console without the rental streaming service). http://mashable.com/2010/01/08/netflix-on-nintendo/

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