Pat-Rights: Thunder on the DRM Music Portal Market
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A company founded by Hongkong citizen KEUNG Tse-Ho for marketing a set of patents on copy prevention mechanisms, appeared on the horizon in late 2004 when it approached Apple for payment of 12% of the revenues of their music downloading business.
News & Chronology
2005-03-05 FFII: Pat-Rights v. Apple documentation
2005-03-04 ZDNet: DRM patent holder seeks 12 percent of iTunes/iPod gross from Apple (article with references to ongoing developments in Europe, local copy)
Background
Pat-Rights.com, a Hongkong-based company founded by a software developper that is seeking to become another Myhrvold Intellectual Ventures (or Acacia), based on a few strong patents that generate the initial capital.
- Address given on US patent: Keung; Tse Ho; P.O. Box 54670, North Point Post Office, HK
- Chinese motto on the home page in translation: "fast as wind, slow as a forest, aggressive like fire, immobile like a mountain, unfathomable like Yin, like thunder and lightening when moving"
