Sony's lawsuits against RED

[Filip Orlandic]

Sony Comments re Patent Suit Filed Against Red Digital Cinema
On April 5, 2013, Sony Corporation ("Sony") sued Red Digital Cinema ("Red") for infringing 7 of Sony's patents in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Sony believes that the Red ONE, EPIC and SCARLET cameras, various digital still and motion camera modules, and various accessories such as the REDMOTE infringe our patents. Sony is seeking both money damages and an injunction to stop the continued sale of Red's infringing products. Sony makes significant investments into the research & development of technology related to the cinema camera industry and intends to protect those investments against companies that infringe our patents.

http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-highend/
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Good luck, RED!!! Dragons will smoke 'em!

 

[Tony Lorentzen]

Holy sh*t!

 

[Kwan Khan]

Wow

 

[Les Dittert]

You don't hit a beehive with a baseball bat.

 

[Daniel Pearson]

LOL, the plot thickens. Weird.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Somewhat interesting, but entirely predictable....

 

[Noel R.]

Doesn't surprise me. We live in a world where people get sued for round corners. Sony was bound to come back with something. Hopefully this doesn't become another Apple vs. Samsung rivalry.

 

[Joel Arvidsson]

Its better Sony concentrate on getting 4k out of there media player instead of upscaling...then playing those games.

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

Somewhat interesting, but entirely predictable....

Completely predictable. And one can only chuckle at the timing. I can just hear the statements they will be making in the Sony booth to potential customers ...

 

[Vadim Bobkovsky]

Here we go, I hope Red knows exactly what to do against the Sony machine.

 

[mikeburton]

This is a battle of ugly vs ugly. Unfortunately, RED started this battle and now only the consumer is going to pay, either in their workflows, the cost of camera/accessory prices, etc. Put the attorneys down boys!

 

[Owen Rennie]

You know you've made it when you get sued by Sony! Congrats Red

 

[Bill Anderson]

Sure it was predictable, but the ramifications ain't.

 

[James McLellan]

I love my Epic but Sony can keep their Redmote if they want it as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Nick Morrison]

RED knows what they are doing. It's not like they didn't see this coming. I think Mark is right, the timing on this is pretty hilarious.

"You see, RED stole from us too! We've just sued them back!".

 

[Martin Weiss]

Standard operating procedure. One company sues another one. They countersue. And the lawyers can bill their hours.

 

[Shervin Mandgaryan]

Tit for tat I guess!

 

[Ivan Kovax]

The redmote claim was particularly amusing...

i thought, what piece of tech does sony have ... then i thought, "BLUETOOTH".

Are you serious? SOny is going to sue Red over using bluetooth? That is as smart as it was for samsung suing apple for using samsung's 3G technology...

But lets see how this plays out either way.

 

[Bill Sepaniak]

Somewhat interesting, but entirely predictable....

Quite. "The best defense is a good offense." Let the games begin!

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Scarlet X # 1859 “Bettie Page”
“… preparing to ‘whip’ the competition …”

Zeiss Lenses:

CY 21/2.8
ZF 28/2.0
CY 35-70/3.4
CY 50/1.4
ZF100/2.0

Nikon Lenses:
G 14-24/2.8
G 24-70/2.8
D 80-200/2.8

Tokina Lenses:

11-16/2.8

 

[PatrickW]

Lawyers win.