One-Blue, the one-stop shop for patent licenses from the leading providers of Blu-ray Disc technology, announced that it and certain One-Blue patent owners have filed suit against Imation Corp. for infringing patents essential to manufacture BD products.

The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, asserts that Imation Corp., a seller of Blu-ray Disc products under the Imation, TDK and Memorex brands, has infringed six US patents (7,290,272; 7,389,520; 7,292,509; 7,123,567; 7,349,309; and 7,158,472). These patents are included in the portfolio offered for license by the One-Blue licensing programme.

"The One-Blue patent pool provides companies with a fair and cost effective mechanism for obtaining Blu-ray Disc product licenses," said William J. Lenihan, Director IP Licensing, One-Blue. "We filed this patent infringement suit in order to maintain a level playing field for the members of the One-Blue patent pool-licensors and licensees alike who manufacture and sell Blu-ray Disc products. We have a duty to ensure that all companies selling Blu-ray Disc products honor the essential patents in the One-Blue pool."

One-Blue membership includes CyberLink, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Consumer Electronics, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Taiyo Yuden and Yamaha. These fifteen Licensors have made available more than 10,000 BD product patents worldwide that are essential to implementing the Blu-ray, DVD, and CD standards.

Story filed 28.05.13