DENVER - Friday, July 4th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MPEG
LA, LLC today announced that patent owners in MPEG LA’s ATSC Patent
Portfolio License and MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License have filed patent
enforcement actions in the United States District Court for the Central
District of California against Sceptre, Inc. (“Sceptre”) for infringing
patents essential to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard and
the ATSC digital broadcast standard.
According to the complaints, Sceptre offers in the United States
products, such as digital television sets, which use patent-protected
MPEG-2 and ATSC methods without having entered into licenses with the
individual patent holders or portfolio licenses offered by MPEG LA.
MPEG LA, LLC
MPEG LA is the world leader in alternative technology licenses. By
assisting users with convenient access to patent rights for their
technology choices, MPEG LA offers licensing solutions that create
opportunities for wide adoption and fuel innovation. MPEG LA’s
pioneering MPEG-2 licensing program helped produce the most widely
employed standard in consumer electronics history and has become the
template for addressing numerous other technologies. Today MPEG LA
manages licensing programs consisting of more than 9000 patents in 74
countries with 162 licensors and some 5800 licensees. For more
information, please refer to http://www.mpegla.com.
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