Aw, snap! Just
months after
Funai took the reins from Philips
in North America, along comes a lawsuit for its lawyers to deal with.
VIZIO, still feeling proud after its all-business
Super Bowl ad, has thrown a potent antitrust and unfair competition lawsuit in Funai's direction. The outfit alleges that Funai, "acting alone and in concert with others, unlawfully restrained trade and monopolized the market for the licensing of technology used to interpret and retrieve information from a digital television broadcast signal, as well as the market for digital television sets and receivers." Specifically, VIZIO seems perturbed that Funai inappropriately acquired the rights to one single US patent, and ever since it has "unfairly discriminated against VIZIO in the licensing and enforcement" of said patent to the "detriment of trade and commerce." There's no mention of how many bills VIZIO thinks will fix the problem, but Funai better not try filling stacks of hundies with Washingtons in between.
[Image courtesy of
TooMuchNick / WireImage]
posted Feb 14th 2009 12:02PM
Maybe we the consumers should file a law suit against Vizio for leading us to believe that they would be our plasma partner for the future. It's easy to talk the talk Vizio, but apparently not so easy to walk the walk.
I wonder if this means that VIZIO believes they were singled-out for enforcement, or if it means that they believe they were charged significantly more for licenses than other licensors. Or both I suppose.
If they did, Funai could find themselves in a bad spot, we're entering a long fat period of Buy American right now. Only thing that's likely to allow us to generate the GDP necessary to drag ourselves out of a depression.
so can someone explain the meaning of this picture to me?
Based on the file name, that is Sean "P-Diddy" Combs. It took me a google search to associate P-Diddy with "Sean Combs" so I'm as in the dark as you beyond that point.
Not sure how the picture is relevant, but it's hilarious.
Puffy has a wad full of hundreds and he's looking at the $1 bill thinking, "how the &*$# did this get in here?"
funny stuff.
The look of shock and disgust on Puff's face is hilarious. A $1 bill in a stack of Hundreds. Classic!
@ oudabashian
Right, just like a Vizio or Funai TV in a stack of nice Pioneer, Sharp & Panasonic.