Toshiba sues Moser Baer, 7 other firms for DVD patent violation

19 May 2009

Japanese electronics major Toshiba Corporation has filed lawsuit alleging DVD patent infringement against optical storage device maker Moser Baer India and seven other companies.

In its petition filed in the US district court for the western district of Wisconsin against Moser Baer and other manufacturers and distributors of recordable DVD media, Toshiba has sought an injunction on the use of its DVD patents by these eight companies, Toshiba said in a recent statement.

Toshiba Corporation has filed the lawsuit against: Moser Baer India Limited (India), Imation Corp (US), CMC Magnetics Corporation (Taiwan), Ritek Corporation (Taiwan), Glyphics Media Inc(US), Hotan Corporation (US), Khypermedia Corporation (US) and Advanced Media Inc (US).

The products include recordable DVD media of the formats DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, and DVD-RAM, according to a Toshiba release.

Toshiba's petition has sought damages for past infringement and has pleaded for court injunction on the sale, manufacture, and importation of recordable DVD media by the defendant companies named in the complaint.

''The infringing recordable DVD media is sold in the US under at least the Imation and Memorex brand names,'' it said.