ANOTHER troll story, this time from the US. A small, Pennsylvania-based patent company Rembrandt is suing 14 US businesses, among them some of the best known corporations in America.
Rembrandt claims it owns the rights to part of the technology being used to facilitate the digital TV switchover. It wants millions of dollars in royalties from companies like Walt Disney Co's ABC, General Electric Co's NBC Universal, CBS Corp and News Corp's Fox Broadcasting for patent infringement.
Now the American Antitrust Institute, a non-profit advocacy group, is asking federal regulators to bar Rembrandt from enforcing its patent. The Government may be persuaded, as it has ploughed $1.5 billion into the switchover, giving $40 coupons to every home in the US.
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