http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/ Engadget Comments for Judge favors Nano-Proprietary in Canon licensing quandary http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/Feb 23rd 2007 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/Feb 23rd 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/
Next step should be Canon suing NP for preventing them from bringing the sets to market and making money on their licensing investment.

Propriety sucks, and this a textbook case as to why. No one wins.]]>Feb 23rd 2007 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/Feb 23rd 2007 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/]]>Feb 23rd 2007 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/Feb 23rd 2007 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/Feb 24th 2007 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/Feb 24th 2007 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/
Get real. Canon/Toshiba were in breach for the past year and a half. They are getting what they had coming. The parties will likely re-negotiate after any appeals are taken and, if by that point SED technology is not obsolete, they might strike a new deal.

In the meantime, there are deals to be had on excellent LCD tv's. Prices are falling rapidly (check out a 37in Olevia LCD for sub $600, for example) and will continue to do so as component manufacturing costs reach economies of scale. ]]>Feb 24th 2007 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/judge-favors-nano-proprietary-in-canon-licensing-quandary/
Nano-Proprietary sold Canon the entire SED portfolio (including ALL FUTURE RIGHTS to any related IP) for a paultry $5.5 million in 1999 in a NON-exlusive AGREEMENT. Canon had full access--forever. But, that wasn't enough for these greedy little bums. Canon wanted to shut out NPI from selling its own IP to anyone else. That's what this is all about. Toshiba and SED, Inc. were supposed to conclude licensing contracts with NNPP, but Canon claimed pass along rights and materially breached the contract. How dare you denegrate Texas and the Federal District Court in something you have no knowledge about whatsoever. As a result of this ruling, now Taiwanese Samsung has expressed an interest in purchasing SED technology from NPI.

NNPP is about the best pure-play nano stock you will ever find. You don't like the name? Get used to it. You're going to be hearing that name for a long time to come. Like Microsoft.


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