Updated! Marlowe Patent Holdings, owned by Ira Marlowe who also heads Blitzsafe, an aftermarket and OE car kit maker, is suing Ford Motor Company for patent infringement in the District Court of New Jersey.
The suit claims Ford’s Sync radio violates Marlowe Holding’s patent entitled “Audio Device Integration System.” The patent pertains to an audio device integration system that enables aftermarket audio products (such as a CD player, a CD changer, an MP3 player, a satellite receiver, a digital audio broadcaster receiver, and other auxiliary sources) to be connected to, operate with, and be controlled from, an existing stereo system in an automobile.
The suit calls for an injunction against Ford and payment of damages.
Regarding Marlowe Holding’s patent, the suit says the major advancement of the technology “is the ability to use external, portable audio devices with an automobile stereo by having the interface between the stereo and the audio device emulate a type of audio device that is designed for an automobile.”
The complaint was filed on December 2.
Marlowe Patent Holdings filed suit in June 2010 against DICE, Aamp of America and other aftermarket car kit makers, also citing patent infringement. Since DICE and Aamp have become licensees of the technology.
Source: CEoutlook
I hope Blitzsafe wins against ford, my business is just hanging on because of the products the car makers are building into their cars. I sell most companies adapters and I am surprised by one post “blitzsafe is so far behind other integration companies” Virgil I sell by far more Blitzsafe adapters than any of the others. What does that have to do with them suing Ford anyway?
good luck. blitzsafe is so far behind other integration companies that I am suprised that they are stiil in buisness.
Too late… I already patented the idea of patenting the idea of patentable ideas, so you’d be infringing on my patentable idea.
I’m going to patent the idea of having pantentable ideas. That way any time someone files for a patent I can sue them for patent infringment. Sound about right?