California tech company Target Technology has a serious beef with Sony over Blu-Ray, and they're not taking the law into their own hands. They're taking them to court...The Indiana Southern District Court.

*cue theme music*

Meet the plaintiff, Target Tech. They claim that Sony's Blu-Ray technology infringes on a patent they've held since last March for a silver-based alloy thin film for optical disks. They've filed a lawsuit against SCEA, Sony Pictures, and Sony DADC US, seeking damages and an injunction against Sony infringing on their patent ever again.

Meet the defendant...well the defendant hasn't commented yet, though I'm sure they get around to it in all due time.

Target Technology is currently named as a co-defendant in a trademark infringement case brought about by Williams Advanced Materials, a company that manufactures, among other things, thin film materials used in DVDs, so for all I know the whole thin film covering business could be full of scoundrels and thieves. Only the other hand, Sony doesn't have that great a track record regarding borrowed tech themselves (rumble), so how this ends up is anybody's guess. Michael Fahey

Tech firm sues Sony over Blu-ray [GamesIndustry.Biz]

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