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Old 03-05-2008   #11 (permalink)
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The sisvel company is a robber.Although M8 sample machine only can paly WMA,not MP3 format,they think m8 embezzle their patent.
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poor meizu...
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Old 03-05-2008   #13 (permalink)
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unconfirmed reports coming from the chinese meizu forum are suggesting that it is not do do with an iphone copyright infringement. They are saying J.Wong said it is Nothing to do with the IPhone,but mp3 problems with SISVEL,Italy. We need to get someone over there to check it out.
This sounds right: I had a look at the SISVEL website. There is a nice pree release about their patent management ( http://www.sisvel.com/SisvelCEBIT2008-en.pdf ) . You can also find a list of companies which took licences for MP3 decompression... and Meizu is'nt listed.

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unconfirmed reports coming from the chinese meizu forum are suggesting that it is not do do with an iphone copyright infringement. They are saying J.Wong said it is Nothing to do with the IPhone,but mp3 problems with SISVEL,Italy. We need to get someone over there to check it out.
This seems strange... aren't software patents in Europe still in dispute, with the "no" side (thankfully) winning so far?
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Sisvel understandably hate small Chinese companies that saturate the European market without paying mp3 copyright royalties, so I should think they are over the moon to have Chinese companies on "their turf"

However, if you look at the register of Sisvel authorised companies, Dane-Elec are there, and they are the authorised distributors for Meizu - so I doubt the issue will continue.
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Yeah, just Google "SISVEL"...they keep the courts pretty busy.
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Translated version of http://meizu.com/bbs/index.asp?boardid=22

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i just hope they rearrange the keyboard layout. non-qwerty = no good.
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wouldn't it be kind of blue-eyed to go to a trade fair with a product/prototype that you know has patent issues? and meizu must have known this, if they previously chose dane elec because of the same issue...

given that, and the assumption that the prototype might not even be capable of playing mp3, it seems way more likely that they violated some iphone design patent.
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According to Jack Wong's reply on a Chinese Meizu fan site. The shut down was due to Sisvel (patent holder of MP3 format) complaining about Meizu not paying for MP3 format royalties. However, in a statement provided by Jack Wong, their m8 unit does not state support for MP3. It only shows WMA support. There were also claims that the booth will re-open. According to Jack's statement. MP3 support for units sold in the USA (Dane-Elec) or other countries is paid for by the importer/distributors locally.
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