Case
Filed: Nov 08, 2012
Case
Closed: Aug 01, 2013
Court:
California Southern District Court
Judge:
Marilyn L. Huff
Case
Summary:
Plaintiff,
Multimedia Patent Trust filed a complaint for patent infringement against LG,
the defendant, accusing infringement of two patents pertaining to video
compression technology that allows data to be sent more efficiently over
communication media. The patents-in-suit were:
- US5136377 entitled Adaptive non-linear quantizer, issued on Aug 04, 1992 and expired* on Dec 11, 2010
- US5227878 entitled Adaptive coding and decoding of frames and fields of video, issued on Jul 13, 1993 and expired* on Nov 15, 2011
The
patents were originally assigned to AT&T and last assigned+ to Multimedia Patent Trust (source: MaxVal’s Assignment Database). MTP claimed its patents were infringed by
products such as LG260, RumorLX260, Rhythm AX565, Scoop AX260, EnVTouch VX11000,
Tritan AX840, Phoenix P505, Thrive P506, Genesis US760 and few others. The
complaint said MTP notified LG of its infringement it refused to take license.
MTP asked Court judgment in favor and money damages.
On Jun 19, 2013, LG filed a motion
for summary judgment and in mid July, Court held a hearing and upon considering
LG’s motion, granted summary judgment in favor of LG. Further details of the
verdict were not disclosed.
MPT
has previously litigated against Microsoft, Gateway, Dell, Acer and few others.
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