Sceptre sued for ATSC and MPEG-2 patent infringement

Business Wire via ITWeb,

Denver, 03 Jul 2014

MPEG LA 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 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 licences offered by MPEG LA.

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