Sony Sued Over PS3 Again

Bit more info about this,

The patent is for “A high speed computer that permits the partitioning of a single computer program into smaller concurrent processes running in different parallel processors.” Oddly enough, Sony’s own patent, filed in 2001 and issued in 2007, actually lists the 1991 patent as a citation. In other words, Sony’s own patent lawyers have already seen the old patent and deemed it not to be a threat, and the U.S. Patent Office apparently agreed when it issued Sony the patent in June.

That’s no guarantee that Parallel Processing Corp. doesn’t have a case, but it makes their somewhat outlandish outcome seem a little less likely. According to NextGen, the company is demanding “the impounding and destruction of all Defendant’s products that infringe the ‘000 Patent.” Lock up your PS3’s, kids!
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Dont think they'll have a case then if this is correct.
 
that could, and hopefully will be the case.

but unfortunately the U.S. patent office has been very very lax in issuing patents over the past few years due to a lack of investigators - basically they had a habit of green stamping new applications without doing the checks they are meant to (IIRC they didn't have anything like enough staff to do the job when the number of patents started increasing and it took a while before they got the funding to hire more staff).
Basically, the patent office approving a new patent doesn't mean there wasn't an existing (and still valid) one that supersedes the new one, as they haven't been doing the checks.
 
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