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Patent infringement lawsuit video analysis industry faces a chilling effect
Publishing Time:2011-4-19 14:58  No.of Visits:2327

Headquartered in the United States, according to securitynewsdesk in reston, Virginia, ObjectVideo company, of Robert Bosch GMBH, Bosch security systems, inc., samsung, samsung Techwin co., samsung Techwin, SONY and SONY electronics companies in the United States filed a patent infringement lawsuit.

The company is looking for a moratorium on the sales of some products, because these products included in the patent infringement ObjectVideo company features and functions of the software. At present, the litigation has been submitted to the United States district court in Virginia.

In a statement, the company's director of intellectual property rights, said: "as the video analysis product strong growth over the past few years, some companies in the case of not paying use ObjectVideo patent technology condition also have similar growth."

"We have to make sure that our existing IP and software partners fair, they are in the market at a disadvantage, because their competitors' products are using the same or similar functional innovation, and the innovation of intellectual property belongs to us."

ObjectVideo company owns 37 U.S. patent and trademark office (USPTO) patents and international patents, 46 the U.S. patent and trademark office (USPTO) and the international patent pending patent, all of these patents in the field of computer.

However, an industry analyst said ObjectVideo company litigation will not bring any benefit to video analysis industry. "We believe that this will make the video analysis industry have a chilling effect. Before this solution, the use of all users face a real risk is not only the Bosch, samsung, and SONY, the analysis of any other company will face charges." John Honovich published in IPVideoMarket. Info.

About ObjectVideo company

ObjectVideo company was founded in 1998 by scientists and from the United States defense advanced research projects agency (DARPA), the project manager to establish. This is a private company, was established on the basis of risk investment. Two thirds of all employees work in the research and development.

ObjectVideo software mainly through to the market to provide original equipment manufacturer (OEM) ObjectVideo embedded in all kinds of video equipment can be built in? Based on processor technology. ObjectVideo, with 70 global partners, including many industry one of the largest manufacturers, video management platform providers and a leading technology company.