Back in 2003, eletronics giants Canon and Toshiba went in on a joint venture to create SED Inc. to develope technology for SED flat panel televisions. SED TVs bear some slight similarities to CRT TVs, except that they have one electron emitter per pixel, rather than one big gun for the entire television screen. In October 2006, the companies announced plans to begin manfacturing SED televisions…and were slammed by a lawsuit earlier this month by Nano-Proprietary, Inc., which claimed the company needed to execute a new license for its technologies included in SED TVs. The rationale: although Canon had licensed Nano-Proprietary’s tech, that license couldn’t be transferred to SED Inc. because Toshiba holds decision-making power over the joint company.
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