Case Filed: Oct 01, 2012
Case Closed: Oct 12, 2012
Court: California Central
District Court
Judge: Otis D. Wright, II
Case Summary:
Digitech Image Technologies based
out of Newport Beach California filed a patent infringement lawsuit against
Sony alleging that they violated their patent, which describes a method of
allowing the camera to capture, transform or render a digital image. The patent
involved in this suit is US6128415, entitled Device profiles for use in a
digital image processing system issued on Oct 03, 2000 and expires[i]
by Sep 06, 2016. The patent was originally assigned
to Polaroid (which brought a lawsuit against Kodak in the year 1986, and
eventually Kodak was forced to stop manufacture both the camera and film) and
is currently assigned[ii] to Digitech Image (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database).
The complaint stated that the Sony
manufactures products/devices that infringe the method claimed in the ‘415
patent. The accused products were alpha
NEX-7, alpha NEX-5N, alpha NEX-C3,
alpha NEX-F3, alpha
a77, alpha a65, alpha a57, alpha a37, Cyber-shot HX200V,
Cyber-shot HX30V, Cyber-shot TX66, Cyber-shot
W650, Cyber-shot TX200V, Cyber-shot TX20, Cyber-shot HX10V, Cyber-shot
H90, Cyber-shot WX150, Cyber-shot WX70, Cyber-shot W690, Cyber-shot
W620, Cyber-shot W610 and Cyber-shot WX50. The complaint sought a
judgment in favor, permanent injunction, damages, costs and expenses incurred.
The case ended as the parties
announced that they have reached an agreement and filed joint stipulation to
dismiss the case. Upon consideration, the Court ordered a dismissal with
prejudice with no charges imposed on either party. The terms of settlement were
not disclosed.
Digitech has also filed suits
against Apple, Toshiba, Motorola, Asus Computer and others asserting the same
patent.
See case 8:12-cv-01678
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[i]
Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a free web-based tool that
automatically calculates patent terms and expiration dates for U.S. utility
patents
[ii]
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