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原文如下：
Sony Faces Patent Suit Over PlayStation 3
Portfolio Media, New York (July 30, 2007)--Sony Corp. of America has been hit with a lawsuit alleging its PlayStation 3 infringes a patent covering the partitioning of a computer program into smaller concurrent processes, and seeking an order for the “impounding and destruction” of all Sony products found to encroach on the patent.
Newport Beach, Calif.-based Parallel Processing Corp. filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Thursday.
At issue is U.S. Patent Number 5,056,000, entitled “Synchronized parallel processing with shared memory” and issued in October 1991.
Sole defendant Sony Corp. of America has and continues to infringe the \'000 patent by making and selling products including, but not limited to, Sony PlayStation 3, according to Parallel Processing\'s complaint.
The complaint also accuses Sony of contributory infringement, as well as of inducing others to infringe the patent in suit, and says that unless the court steps in, the alleged infringement will keep going on and cause the plaintiff irreparable harm and monetary damage.
Sony is aware of the \'000 patent, which is valid and enforceable, and is willfully infringing it, Parallel Processing further contends.
Parallel Processing\'s suit asks the court to enjoin Sony from continuing its alleged infringement, award the plaintiff treble damages and attorneys\' fees, and to “order the impounding and destruction of all defendant\'s products that infringe the \'000 patent.”
The \'000 patent relates to a parallel processing computer system using synchronous phases. Parallel processing is the ability to break up a single, large computer program into pieces that can be dealt with simultaneously in different processors, thus maximizing output, according to the \'000 patent\'s description on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office\'s Web site.
In March 2006, chip maker Agere Systems Inc. sued Sony Corp. in the same Texas court, accusing Sony of infringing eight patents through several Sony products including computers and wireless LAN cards, and warning that, based on “announced specifications,” PlayStation 3 would infringe three of the patents at issue when launched.
New York City-based Sony Corp. of America is a subsidiary of Tokyo\'s Sony Corp. Sony employs 163,000 people around the globe, and had about $70.3 billion in consolidated annual sales for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2007, of which $18.9 billion came from U.S. sales, according to Sony Corp. of America\'s Web site.
A Sony spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on the lawsuit.
Parallel Processing Corp. is represented in its suit against Sony by the Albritton Law Firm, the Ward & Smith Law Firm and Simon Passanante PC.
The case is Parallel Processing Corp v. Sony Corp. of America, case number 07-353, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
翻译如下：
索尼ps3遭遇专利诉讼
索尼美国公司的ps3被控侵犯了一项将计算机程序分割为可同步处理的小程序的专利。
位于加州的同步处理公司于本周三在美国德州东区联邦地区法院提起诉讼。
争讼的专利为发明名称“通过共享内存同步并行处理”专利号5056000，1991年10月获得授权。
同步处理公司诉称，唯一的被告索尼美国公司通过制造和销售ps3等产品侵犯了第000号专利，并且侵权行为还在继续。
诉状还指控索尼共同侵权以及引诱他人侵权。除非法院采取行动，被控侵权行为还会继续并将造成原告不可挽回的损失。索尼知道第000号专利，并且故意侵犯它。
并行处理公司要求法院禁止索尼继续侵权，给予原告三倍的赔偿金以及律师费。
根据美国专利商标局的描述，第000号专利与使用同步相位的并行处理计算机系统有关。并行处理是将单独的、大的计算机程序分解为可由不同的处理器同时处理的小程序，从而使输出最大化。
2006年3月，芯片制造商Agere系统公司在同一德州法院起诉索尼，指控索尼通过几项产品侵犯了八项专利。包括计算机以及无线局域网卡。并指控索尼ps3发布时即侵犯三项专利权。 |
