Imation Sued Over Blu-Ray Discs

Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer and Philips and their joint venture One-Blue LLC, in charge of Blu-Ray licensing, have sued Imation in the US District Court for the District of Delaware on May 22, 2013.

They claim that Imation infringed six U.S. patents by selling recordable optical discs with the official Blu-ray logo: 7,389,520, 7,292,509, 7,123,567, 7,349,309, 7,158,472 and notably No.7,290,272, issued October 30, 2007 by Matsushita Electric Industrial.

It’s not the first time Imation infringed patents on optical technology. In 2009 the company was obliged to pay $53 million over three years to Philips after a settlement agreement for a case in relation with its joint-venture partner Moser-Baer, manufacturer of optical media based in India.

The optical media business of Imation was globally catastrophic and could be a disaster depending on the result of the new legal dispute.