LG Electronics Inc. (the plaintiff) recorded patents-in-suit against Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation et al. (the defendant) on Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012 in the U.S District Court of Delaware for patent infringement. The defendant is an international joint venture of Toshiba Corporation and Samsung Electronics Co.Ltd.,
The plaintiff owns the U.S patents given below:
U.S Patent No. |
Date of Issue |
Title
|
August 8, 2000
|
“Method and Apparatus for Initializing Rewritable Recording Media”
|
|
May 27, 2008
|
“Method and Apparatus of Recording Data in the Optical Recording Medium”
|
|
May 27, 2008
|
“Method and Apparatus of Recording Data in the Optical Recording Medium”
|
|
November 5, 2002
|
“Optical Recording Medium and Method of Assigning its Spare Area”
|
According to the complaint, this suit is filed for allegedly infringing a series of patents incorporated in disc drives and DVD writers. The plaintiff says that the defendant’s products, optical disc drives and DVD writers that comply with DVD+RW and DVD-RAM standards are covered by the patents-in-suit. The plaintiff in the past has not filed similar suit for the above mentioned patents. However, the company has filed other patent related as listed below:
Defendant |
Date Filed |
Case Number |
Status |
Sony Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, Sony Electronics, Inc. |
02/04/2011 |
pending |
|
Sony Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, Sony Electronics, Inc. |
02/04/2011 |
pending |
|
Whirlpool Corporation |
02/24/2010 |
pending
|
|
Funai Electric Co., Ltd. |
08/12/2009 |
pending
|
|
Eastman Kodak Company |
02/20/2009 |
pending
|
|
Eastman Kodak Company |
02/20/2009 |
pending
|
|
Hitachi, Ltd. |
11/26/2008 |
closed |
|
ASKO Appliances, Inc. |
11/05/2008 |
pending
|
|
Petters Group Worldwide,LLC |
09/19/2008 |
pending
|
|
Quanta Computer, Inc. |
07/15/2008 |
closed
|
|
Hitachi, Ltd. |
12/31/2007 |
pending
|
|
Hitachi, Ltd. |
08/29/2007 |
pending
|
|
Hitachi, Ltd. |
06/18/2007 |
pending
|
|
Hitachi, Ltd. |
06/18/2007 |
pending
|
|
Vizio, Inc., Irvine, CA |
N/A |
pending
|
|
Funai Electric Company,Ltd.,Japan; FunaiCorporation, Inc., Rutherford,NJ; P&F USA, Inc.,Alph |
N/A |
pending |
|
Sony Corporation, Japan; Sony Corporation of America;New York, NY; SonyElectronics, Inc, San Diego,CA;
|
N/A |
pending |
|
Bizcom Electronics, Inc. |
N/A |
pending
|
|
Quanta Computer, Inc. |
N/A |
pending
|
|
Bizcom Electronics, Inc.
|
N/A |
pending |
For more details, visit Maxval-IP and subscribe to our Litigation Alerts.
Views: 110
Tags: LG, Litigation, MaxVal, Samsung, Toshiba
© 2013 Created by Mikk Putk.

You need to be a member of Intellectual Property Insiders to add comments!
Join Intellectual Property Insiders