Sun 31 Dec 2006
Happy New Year from SED TV Reviews and here’s wishing all SED TV fans a happier 2007!
More bad news. Full story at Forbes.com
TOKYO (AFX) – Canon Inc and Toshiba Corp may be forced to delay the planned construction of a new factory to make panels for surface-conduction electron-emitter display or SED televisions due to a patent suit in the US.
While the two companies are promoting the SED-related businesses at their joint venture SED Inc., Nano-Proprietary Inc, the US firm which holds a patent related to the SED television technology and signed an agreement licensing Canon to use the technology, has prevented Canon from transferring the license to SED Inc, the paper said.
Canon considers the joint venture a subsidiary because the number of shares they hold surpasses that of Toshiba by a single share, but Nano-Proprietary argued in the suit that the joint venture is not a Canon subsidiary as Toshiba still has a large influence.
Although Canon asked a US district court to recognize the venture as its subsidiary, the court turned down the request in November, the report said.
What a mess. I’d hoped that this could have been worked out by now.
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