The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) announced that it has initiated an investigation based on patent infringement complaints by Freescale Semiconductor against Panasonic, Funai, JVC and various retailers.
Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC), an operating company of the JVC KENWOOD Group, announced that it won a suit it had filed against Conrexx Technology B.V. (Conrexx), a German affiliate of Ritek Corporation, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of DVD recordable and other optical storage discs.
Although Ricoh’s RS-1060C does the job, it has a number of inadequacies, including a small buffer, double speed recording only, slow CD-ROM drive performance and a relatively high price.