More Toyota problems

[Super83Z]

http://freep.com/article/20090904/BU...-patent-claims

Can't seem to find this on any major media outlet...................boy thats strange.......................

Business news briefs: Toyota faces patent claims
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Toyota Motor Corp. faces patent-infringement claims that may result in a U.S. import ban on some of its popular hybrid cars.





Paice LLC filed a complaint Thursday with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, claiming Toyota is infringing its patents. It seeks an order to ban imports of products using its inventions. A copy of the filing wasn't immediately available.



Paice won a jury verdict in 2005 that the Prius, Toyota Highlander and Lexus RX400h hybrids used Paice inventions related to drive trains. Another patent trial is to begin Oct. 1 in federal court in Marshall, Texas.



The October trial involves Paice claims that the Toyota Camry infringes the same patent that was at the heart of the 2005 trial, as well as two others. A second case, also pending in Marshall, involves claims of infringement of another patent by the Highlander and Lexus models.



The commission in Washington is set up to protect the U.S. market from unfair trade practices, including patent infringement. If it agrees to investigate Paice's claims, the investigation could be finished in about 15 months.



It has the power to order U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to block infringing products from entering the country.

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The hilarity continues...

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toyota rocks...

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[Zabo]

Originally Posted by The_Blur

..O_O I was listening to that song just as I opened this thead. Wow. Toyota, what's next? Nuclear Proliferation?

[The_Blur]

Originally Posted by Zabo

..O_O I was listening to that song just as I opened this thead. Wow. Toyota, what's next? Nuclear Proliferation?

Don't give North Korea's insane regime any ideas.



In all seriousness, this is really disappointing. Companies this big hire a lot of employees who work hard everyday, even if they are building inferior and illegal products. These sorts of lawsuits cause those workers to miss out on bonuses while their supervisors make the hard decisions of who to layoff to offset the cost of doing business illegally. All the while, upper management continues to do business the same way by cutting costs and workers without ever considering the impact it could have if only they did business the legal way. Toyota has become the capitalist pig in the automotive world while the press-dogged American manufacturers in the home of free enterprise have managed to compete fairly, pay high wages, and generate overwhelmingly superior products. This is truly discouraging from Japan, a nation that prides itself on technological supremacy and doing good business worldwide. Toyota is not just embarrassing its company name with its recent debacles but rather the whole nation of Japan and in fact the entire automotive industry by striking concern into the many drivers who have for years associated Toyota with reliable, safe transportation.