Last week, electronics giant Canon lost a big court decision to a little Texas company, Nano Proprietary. Nano Proprietary holds patents on some of the technology necessary to develop the new surface emitter displays: SEDs. According to a Reuters report, Canon paid Nano a one-time $5.6 million licensing fee for the use of those patents. Then Canon teamed up with Toshiba to develop SED technology jointly, and created some beautiful...