Patent trolls kill Meizu Mini One, 50 others

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Friday, March 7th, 2008

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Sisvel, an Italian research company, apparently has some sort of patent that entitles it to shut down folks at CeBIT. The license, based around MP3 playback, shut down our beloved Meizu along with 50 other booths. Unfortunately, we didn’t see the raid go down. It would have been cool to see the paratroopers.

Police raid CeBIT stands [Register]

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