[opendtv] Federal Court Rules Command Audio Patents Enforceable; Sony Assertions of Inequitable Conduct Rejected in Digital Video Recorder Infringement Suit
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:10:35 -0500
Federal Court Rules Command Audio Patents Enforceable; Sony
Assertions of Inequitable Conduct Rejected in Digital Video
Recorder Infringement Suit
- Jan 13, 2005 10:01 AM (BusinessWire)
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2005--Command Audio
Corporation, a leader in the development and delivery of broadcast
on-demand media, announced today that, after conducting a trial, the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled
against Sony Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:SNE), rejecting Sony's
contentions that Command Audio purposely misled the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office in the early 1990s while seeking its foundation
on-demand media patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,406,626). Consequently,
Command Audio's lawsuit against Sony for infringing two related
Command Audio patents will continue to move forward. In June 2004 the
Court ruled summarily that Sony had been infringing at least one of
those patents, U.S. Patent No. 6,330,334 (the "'334 patent"). Sony's
products held proven to infringe include digital video recorders
(DVRs, also known as Personal Video Recorders, or PVRs) made under
license from TiVo, Inc. (NASDAQ:TIVO) and Sony's VAIO(TM) personal
computers with DVR functionality provided by Sony's GigaPocket(TM)
software.
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