Replies to post #6240 on T M M Inc (TMMI)

[4retire]

This was a very concise response. It is inaccurate however with many items missing such as DFI transferring all of the assets, codec and shareholders to DFMI. TMMI breaking it's agreement with first DFI, then DFMI, and DFMI going another way.

It also misses the lawsuit in Ventura in 2002 wherein the judge told Simpson to give the codec and all copies back to DFMI. Yet, he sells the codec to TMMI in 2012. I would imagine something is very askew here.

In my opinion, this ill conceived lawsuit was a knee jerk in reaction to Dimension's first patent on compression.

Will losing this lawsuit damage TMMI? Most assuredly.

[tmmi_fooled]

The next question :

""" In March 1993, TMMI paid for an exclusive, perpetual, non-transferrable world-wide license to fractal video compression source code (VDK 1.0-1.9) from Iterated Systems, Inc. ("ISI"). Such license was for ISI's software based on ISI's fractal video compression technology reflecting ISI's more than two dozen issued patents involving the technology. """"""""""

So, what is the problem with that?


""" In March 2000, DFI and ISI entered into a license agreement by which DFI was granted an exclusive license to use and develop the PVS/SGI (VDK 2.0) source code. Such fully-paid license was exclusive to DFI in accordance with its terms. DFI was acquired by TMMI pursuant to a stock exchange transaction dated June 8, 2012. """

So, what is the problem with that ?

""The Complaint alleges that some of the defendants stole an early version of the fractal video compression technology from a protected computer in or about 2002. TMMI and DFI are seeking equitable relief against the named defendants to enjoin any further development and/or enhancement by any of them of the stolen source code and the return of the source code together with any derivatives and copies thereof"""

So, which company stole that technology ? What is the background of the company which stole the technology ? How did the defendant have the chance to stole ? All these can be tracked back . If you claimed that the technology was not stolen , then you need to spend time to develop, who are the engineers which develop that technology , where are they working now ? All these can be tracked back, so what is the argument here ? Did people who used to worked at DFI steal this technology and start another company of their own ?