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Eye-Fi Says New SD Association Wireless Standard Violates Its IP

 

Eye Fi Says New SD Association Wireless Standard Violates Its IP eyefi mini

Perhaps lost amidst the excitement over new cameras at CES 2012 earlier this month was the SD Association’s unveiling of a new Wi-Fi data transfer standard. This new specification should make it easier for other memory card manufacturers to jump into the Wi-Fi-capable memory card game — an arena currently dominated by Eye-Fi (and more recently Toshiba).

Eye-Fi is, predictably, not happy with this latest development. The company is itself part of the SD Association, but has chosen not to back the standard. In a blog post published last week, CEO Yuval Koren argues that any company implementing the new standard would violate Eye-Fi’s patents for technology that took “tens of millions of dollars and several years” to create.

(via Eye-Fi via Engadget)

Image credit: Eye-Fi card by sphynge

 
 

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  • alexg

    I think it’s good for them. Some competition will improve their software.

  • Mickeyblast

    I think competition would be good for them, but the company deserves to get a few steps ahead before they are raped of their idea, money spent, and work.
    This hasn’t been out long enough for other companies to get to copy it.

  • Anonymous

    Since Eye-Fi didn’t develop the 802.11 standard, the SD card file system, or the idea of putting communication mechanisms on a memory card, unless someone stole their actual circuit design, they need to calm down and drink a nice mug of STFU. Your “idea” was basically a mash-up of existing technologies.

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t go that far.  There may be something special involved in tying them together that might be patentable, without reading the patent document, it’s impossible to know.  Sometimes mash-ups are patentable if they make a novel means of executing it.

  • pacabba

    I’m surprised about so much interest for such a kind of Sd card, Eye-Fi has so many unstisifed customers ! Just to have an idea have look to their forum (http://forums.eye.fi/viewforum.php?f=2).  

  • Tiki

    They spent “tens of millions of dollars” on this?!?!?
    Unlikely.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=18405150 Tenley Baldwin

    So April has come and gone long time ago with no news. Did Toshiba back off?