Lawsuit: Show us the Money, or Pull the PlayStation 3

Last Wednesday another no-name company with a suitcase full of patents opted to fling one at Sony in another attempt to cash in on Sony's Blu-ray technology. According to Edge, which obtained the court filing, Orinda Intellectual Properties USA Holding Group (bet you'd never guess what they do) is alleging that Sony violated their patent number 5,438,560, titled "Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing optical information and optical disk-shaped recording medium."

Named as defendants: Sony Corporation, Sony Entertainment Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., and Sony Electronics Inc.

Orinda apparently wants a jury trial, the cessation of PS3 manufacturing and sales, as well as pretty much anything else containing Blu-ray technology. The company also wants royalties.

Of course others have already tried...and failed. In May 2007, Target Technology sued Sony in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana for violating patent 7,018,696, titled "Metal alloys for the reflective or the semi-reflective layer of an optical storage medium."

The result? Dismissed, just a few months later.

What's different this time? The lawsuit was filed with the Texas Eastern District Court, which earlier this year denied Nintendo's appeal to scuttle a $21 million patent-infringement verdict favoring Anascape Ltd., which had claimed NIntendo violated a dozen controller-related patents related to its Wii and GameCube systems.

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