DJI Files Patent Lawsuit Against Yuneec, Marking Industry's First Legal Fight (theverge.com) 33
An anonymous reader writes: The world's most successful consumer drone manufacturer, DJI, has filed a lawsuit in California claiming Yuneec has infringed on two of its patents. The claim centers on "systems and methods for target tracking," and "interchangeable mounting platform." They're asking the court to halt the sale of the infringing Yuneec products and systems. The case marks the first legal battle in the consumer drone industry.
"DJI welcomes competition, but is committed to protecting its intellectual property," a press release on the filing stated. "Friday's filing is a response to safeguard that investment, to protect customers and partners and to promote genuine innovation in this promising area." Last year, Yuneec launched the 4K Typhoon drone to compete with DJI's Phantom 3 Professional drone. It also announced the Typhoon H at CES, which is equipped with an Intel RealSense camera.
This Just In (Score:2)
This just in: By participating in April Fools jokes Slashdot again looses all legitimacy as a news website for the day.
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I did wonder about a couple of them but decided to give the benefit of the doubt.
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I always wonder about stories here.
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I appreciate your reply. Still annoying but now at least the site is useable for me today.
Of course maybe I'm just no fun which is why I find it still annoying.
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What's annoying is kill-joys like you who take things too seriously. I mean, good grief! You must be new here.
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You're one of those people who think Hawaiian shirt day at work is fun and wacky and bothering people for not wearing green on St Patricks day is part of the fun arent you?
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Nope, I'm the guy who doesn't take nonsense like April Fools day and jack-asses like you too seriously.
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It could be worse. Remember O.M.G Ponies?
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So you're the nice easy going guy whose a dick to anyone who doesnt like something he doesnt mind. Gotcha.
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Wow. Just wow. Are you 14?
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Well you started the name calling so i thought I'd bring the conversation down to your level. I was thinking 13.
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Seriously. Grow up. Yo are embaressing yourself and your peers.
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I questioned the reliability of the site's articles due to slashdots participating in April Fools (sarcastically but the editor seemed to have gotten it). An editor let me know they were good. I said I appreciated the responce but mentioned that the stuff they're doing is annoying. I then point out that that could just me being no fun. I made my oppinion known and even ackowledged that it might only be mine while leaving the window open for others to voice their takes.
Literally all you've done here is whini
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Literally all you've done here is whining
Goog grief, talk about WHINING! Someone needs to call you a WHAAAAAAAMBULANCE!
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There's more of it, keep it up! Now call me Childish!
Consistency isn't commonly known as a virtue but maybe if you try hard enough you can make it one!
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You must be new here.
You misspelled, You must be nude here.
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You misspelled, You must be nude here.
I see you exposed him.
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I usually face April 01 with dread, knowing that Slashdot and other sites will just be a massive collection of "funny" shitposts all day. It's nice to see this new approach.
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It's been almost twenty friggin' years. Where have you been?
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Right here, I did say "again loses all legitimacy"
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This just in: Slashdot denizen gets panties in a twist!
I can see part of DJI's gripe (Score:3)
I can definitely see DJI getting all hot under the collar about the SteadyGrip: it's practically the same thing.
But the tracking? The Phantom 4 does a very nice image recognition system. The Yuneec needs a GPS signal from the ST-10 (or Wizard Wand) to lock onto so it can track. I don't know about the ST-16 / Typhoon H in that regard.
The optical avoidance system of the P4 (and the Typhoon H): surely DJI isn't going to claim that is their invention? I see car ads every day offering the same thing.
This will be an interesting battle.
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Well... taking the gimbal + camera off the Inspire 1 and mounting on the grip was very new.
Yes, I'm sure gimbal-stabilized cameras have been hand-held mounted before, but this was an innovation.
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It's always been pretty damned obvious. "Hey, we've got all this technology and a camera hooked together. It would make a great stabilized selfie stick".
Unless DJI did it in some non obvious fashion that is made clear in the patent, this is just another bullshit 'idea' patent.
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And the 'modular' part? What part of that isn't obvious and / or coated with prior art?
They should put their drones up for a death match (Score:2)