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The case could test the concept of "place-shifting" - the notion that technology can free consumers to view content at any location. Whilst Mershon <a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Stuart&s2=Mershon&OS=Stuart+AND+Mershon&RS=Stuart+AND+Mershon">patented his technology a decade ago</a>, some <a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20070215/192239.shtml">commentators</a> give the inventor little chance of victory. He is claiming unspecified damages. Sling Media, who we <a href="/blog/346-the-slingbox-q-a-shaking-up-the-tv-industry-with-technology">interviewed in October</a>, recently inked a deal with mobile phone network 3 to make its services available in the UK, Denmark and Sweden. <a href="http://www.slingmedia.com/indexa.php">Its</a> founder Jason Krikorian told CNET News.com he <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6159815.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news">denied</a> the infringement accusation.

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A Texan inventor has launched an audacious court case against TV-shifting hardware maker <a href="http://www.slingmedia.com">Sling Media</a>, claiming a patent infringement. Stuart Mershon claims the Slingbox, which uses the internet to rebroadcast TV content from a user's lounge to a PC or mobile phone anywhere in the world, infringes on a system he invented to transmit home audio signals to a remote speaker over wireless telephone networks.

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