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flame war - By Stefanie OlsenStaff Writer, CNET News.comSightSound Technologies, a digital media company, has won a ruling inits patent case against Bertelsmann subsidiaries that could havewide-reaching effects on the business of Net music and videodownloads.Mount Lebanon, Penn.-based SightSound holds three patents related tothe sale and download of digital music and video over the Internet.In 1998, the company sued the Internet site CDNow, owned by mediatitan Bertelsmann, for infringement of patents filed in the late1980s. The case is the first and only test so far of the validity ofSightSound's intellectual property holdings.Last Thursday, a federal judge in the Western District Court ofPennsylvania and Pittsburgh granted SightSound's motion for summaryjudgment against Bertelsmann's divisions, paving the road for the5-year dispute to go to jury trial. The court also dismissedBertelsmann's request to avoid trial, which was based on the assertionthat SightSound had not filed the proper information with the UnitedStates Patent and Trademark Office.http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5101490.html
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