[opendtv] Acacia Sues TV Cos. in Patent Dispute
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:40:07 -0400
Acacia Sues TV Cos. in Patent Dispute
- Jun 15, 2004 06:20 PM (AP Online)
By GARY GENTILE AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A firm that says it holds the rights on
technology needed to power video-on-demand services and streaming
video over the Internet sued major cable and satellite TV companies
Tuesday, alleging patent infringement.
Acacia Media Technology Corp., a division of Newport Beach,
Calif.-based Acacia Research Corp., alleges that nine companies are
violating five of its patents, some of which date back to 1992, that
describe a method of transmitting audio/visual content.
The defendants include cable giants Comcast Corp., Cox Communications
Inc. and Charter Communications Inc., as well as satellite providers
DirecTV Group Inc. and Echostar Communications Corp. and some smaller
companies. The complaint was filed Tuesday in federal court in San
Francisco.
Charter spokesman David Anderson said the company had yet to see the
lawsuit but added, "We do not believe that Charter's services
infringe any intellectual property rights that Acacia may have."
Comcast spokeswoman Jenni Moyer said the company "vigorously
disputes" the allegations.
Other defendants said they couldn't comment because they hadn't seen
the complaint or do not discuss pending litigation.
The patents cover a method of transmitting content, such as movies or
video clips, that is stored in a library, as opposed to images of
live events.
The patents describe a method of breaking the content up into blocks,
placing time codes on them, compressing the size of the files,
storing the chunks of data and then transmitting and receiving them.
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