From phm@a2e.de  Wed Dec 12 15:32:38 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:32:38 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Patents] Dell wegen Verletzung von MPEG-2-Patenten verklagt
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112121630510.9274-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

Heise

  http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/nij-20.11.00-001/

reports that among others France Telecom and Philipps are suing Dell in
the US for infringing their MPEG2 patents by failing to pay license fees
for PCs equipped with DVD players.

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