T5 Suing Onlive

Via Bigdownloads:

A few months ago OnLive claimed it had the patent secured for its streaming PC game technology. Now VentureBeat reports that a previously unknown UK company called T5 Labs has claims it had secured a patent for the same kind of streaming tech several months before OnLive filed for its patent in 2002.

T5 Labs stated in an email that the company "is considering its legal rights, including deciding whether to commence a procedure in the U.S. Patent Office known as an "interference" to establish that t5 labs, rather than OnLive, is the first inventor and entitled to the patent rights on video gaming inventions ..." OnLive has yet to comment on this development. It's not known why T5 Labs has not tried to commercialize its technology like OnLive has. OnLive officially launched its service in June 2010 and can now stream a number of games to PCs, Macs and TVs (the latter with a Microconsole).

Here is a perfect example of abusing intellectual property rights. Some company that probably doesn't have a functional product is going to throw a hail mary lawsuit in the hopes of getting a settlement. Nice mentality, lets not create a competitive product, instead lets claim that because a product had similar goals well just say that the idea was stolen and sue.

"It's not known why T5 Labs has not tried to commercialize its technology like OnLive has"

So true.