LG seeks injunction on Quanta-built Apple, HP, Dell, and Sony laptops

by Thomas Ricker, posted Jul 4th 2007 at 4:43AM

LG's heading back to US court with another patent dispute. This time, it's not Hitachi they're ~~after~~ impeding, it's laptop OEM Quanta, and their alleged abuse of four LG DVD patents. The suit filed in Wisconsin court seeks monetary compensation and an injunction which prevents Quanta from using their DVD technology in laptops. While Quanta does build laptops for Apple, HP, Dell, and Sony among others, we'd be surprised if a successful injunction request has any effect on laptop availability. After all, nobody is silly enough to sole-source their gear are they? No doubt the kids at Foxconn are snickering with joy right about now.

Filed under: Laptops

Tags: apple, dell, foxconn, hp, lawsuit, legal, lg, litigation, quanta, sony

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russell @ Jul 4th 2007 4:48AM

Maybe its just me, but I would swear that LG screens are used in some of the new Macbook Pros. Wouldn't trying to block the sale of one of their own customers products be... bad?

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trancer @ Jul 4th 2007 4:57PM

out of all places, why Wisconsin? ;)

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Andrew Hamilton @ Jul 4th 2007 6:08PM

"nobody is silly enough to sole-source their gear are they?" Mac-OS cough cough

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