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3D Graphics Patent Suit Expanded from Game Developers to 19 PC Makers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 5, 2004 - 8:56am.
Dallas, Texas -- A Texas law firm that earlier this week sued 12 video game publishers for allegedly infringing a 3D graphics patent has extended its litigation to include 19 PC manufacturers, including HP, IBM, Dell, Sony, Sharp and Toshiba. The Dallas-based law firm of McKool Smith said that in addition to the 3D graphics display patent, it believes the PC makers may be infringing on six other patents, all of which were originally purchased by the firm itself from Oregon-based Tektronix. The firm will likely seek to settle the lawsuits out of court, forcing the defendants to consider paying a license fee rather than pay for patent experts to investigate the firm's claims and lawyers to defend them.
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