Tag archive: Nano-Proprietary

Remember way back when Nano-Proprietary (now Applied Nanotech Holdings) sued Canon over the makup of its SED TV joint venture with Toshiba, claiming the corporate arrangement means SED TV wasn't a Canon subsidiary and, therefore, the company didn't have license to Nano-Proprietary technology central to SED TVs? Canon responded by completely taking over the joint venture with Toshiba, but the damage was already done: Canon lost the… Read More

Electronics giant Canon has announced they are delaying the launch of their next-generation flat-panel SED televisions, citing the long patent licensing dispute with Nano-Proprietary over key SED technology, and saying they need time to develop production technology which will bring the manufacturing costs of SED panels low enough to make the systems commercially viable. Canon says it will offer a new launch schedule for SED televisions… Read More

In a brief statement, electronics giant Canon has announced that the patent infringement case brought against it by Nano-Proprietary over its SED TV product development has been dismissed, with the jury returning a verdict that Nano-Proprietary sustained no damages. Back in February, the court found that Canon had breached its patent license agreement with Nano-Proprietary by setting up SED, Inc., as a joint venture with Toshiba and then… Read More

Judge Samuel Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has ruled against (PDF) electronics giant Canon in a patent dispute with Nano-Proprietary over technology planned for use in SED flat-screen televisions. Canon originally licensed Nano-Proprietary's technology with an eye towards manufacturing surface-conduction electron emitter displays (SED) for televisions; SED panels have the potential to offer… Read More

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… Read More

The development of flat-panel televisions based on SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) technology may be delayed by a lawsuit filed against Canon by U.S. technology developer Nano-Proprietary Inc. of Austin, Texas. Back in 2003, Canon and Toshiba joined forces to create a joint venture company, SED Inc, split almost 50-50 between the two companies: Canon owns 50 percent plus one share, and Toshiba owns everything else. SED… Read More