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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
 Toshiba Corporation announced last week that it has filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against Imation, along with "several manufacturers and several distributors of recordable DVD media", as a means to prohibit infringement of Toshiba's DVD patents.
According to a Reuters report, the other defendants are Moser Baer India Ltd, CMC Magnetics Corp and Ritek Corp of Taiwan, and Glyphics Media, Hotan Corp, Khypermedia Corp and Advanced Media Inc in the US.
Toshiba's complaint seeks damages for past infringement and requests that the court enjoin the sale, manufacture, and importation into the United States of recordable DVD media by the defendant companies named in the complaint. The infringing recordable DVD media is sold in the United States under at least the Imation and Memorex brand names.
According to Toshiba, Imation and the other defendant companies named in the complaint do not have licence agreements with Toshiba or the DVD6C Licensing Group covering recordable DVD media, and have engaged in the importation and sale of recordable DVD media without permission. This means: "The infringement of Toshiba's patents by these companies has negatively affected Toshiba's business, and caused damage to the legitimate and licensed DVD product manufacturing and distribution business as a whole."
Through the filing of the lawsuit, Toshiba says, it seeks to recover monetary damages, prevent future infringement, and/or secure agreements to respect Toshiba's intellectual property rights in the future.
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