The manufacturer Eye-fi claims that the SD Association’s infringement on its patents on sd memory cards with wi-fi support. The sd association would soon be competing iSDIO specification to the standard as declared.
The SD Association, the sd memory standard for memory cards oversees, has recently introduced the Intelligent SD Input-Output specification announced. This is a standard proposed by the wi-fi support for the memory cards, so that, for example, images directly from the camera can be sent.
Eye-fi works to his own words, however, been seven years on this type of cards. According to Eye-fi ceo Yuval Koren handles the SD Association in contravention of its own guidelines, and his company has not had time to prematurely indicate that the proposed specification is in conflict with intellectual property. Eye-fi is a member of the association and would be entitled to.
The SD Association replied that “the only thing that still can be adapted in the license-decrease “and that” the technical details do not change’. At the same time gives the organization from PCWorld that the period within which members intellectual property claims do not over is: who would run from 28 november 2011 until 27 January 2012.