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Apple Sued Over Apple TV
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
Apple TV may still be struggling to find a place in the living room, but it will play an important role in an Illinois courtroom in the months ahead. In a lawsuit filed against Apple on Tuesday, EZ4Media , a maker of wireless entertainment devices based in Bannockburn, Ill., said that the company's Apple TV, Airport Express, and Apple Macintosh personal computers infringe on its patents. The patents at issue are U.S. Patent No. 7,130,616, 7,142,934, 7,142,935, and 7,167,765. EZ4Media obtained the patents in question from Universal Electronics ...
Apple Sued—Apple TV Accused of Violating Four Patents
The Mac Observer —
Apple Sued—Apple TV Accused of Violating Four Patents by on December 18th, 2008 at 5:31 PM Apple TV Apple Inc. was sued Tuesday by EZ4Media , a wireless entertainment device company who is accusing Apple of violating four of its patents with the Apple TV. The company acquired the patents from Universal Electronics (UEI) in March of 2008, the same place Apple hired three engineers, two of whom worked on the Apple TV, according EZ4Media. The lawsuit, which InformationWeek first reported, said that Nick Kalayjian, Bruce Edwards, and Wendy Goh all left UEI in 2005, approximately one year before the Apple ...
Apple sued by EZMedia over Apple TV, AirPort Express
Macsimum News —
... Another day, another lawsuit. A company named EZMedia is suing Apple, claiming that the Apple TV, Airport Express, and Apple Macintosh personal computers infringe four of its patents, reports ...
Apple TV at the center of Apple's latest lawsuit
AppleInsider —
... Published: 06:55 PM EST A wireless set-top-box maker is suing Apple, claiming the company hired away a trio of employees privy to patented technology that would later turn up as part of Apple TV. The 6-page complaint was filed in an Illinois court on Tuesday by locally-based EZ4Media, Inc. , an actual maker of wireless digital media players for the living room; not a patent troll. The company says it decided to file the suit only after "extensive discussions" with Apple failed to result in an amicable out of court resolution. Specifically, EZ4Media claims that Apple TV, ...
News: Lawsuit claims Apple TV infringes patents
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
EZ4Media , maker of wireless entertainment devices, has filed suit in Illinois Northern District Court against Apple claiming that the company’s Apple TV, AirPort Express, and Macintosh computers infringe on four of the company’s patents. Three of the patents in question relate to streaming digital media from a server to a device, while the fourth covers a method for transferring media content from the Internet to a computer which then wirelessly transmits the data to a TV for playback. Interestingly, each of the patents was obtained by EZ4Media from Universal ...
Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and Mac
The Apple Core —
December 19th, 2008 Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and Mac Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 8:22 am Categories: Legal , Airport , Apple TV Tags: Apple AirPort Express , Apple Macintosh , Apple Inc. , Apple TV , TVs , Tv & Home Theater , Home Networking , Personal Technology , Home Entertainment , Networking http://ez4media.com/images/index_topselect_images/index_top_select_02.gif EZ4Media , a Bannockburn, IL maker of wireless entertainment devices, filed a lawsuit ...
Apple Sued Over Apple TV
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... by EZ4Media , a company specializing in wireless entertainment devices based in Illinois, states that Apple's Apple TV, Airport Express, and Apple Macintosh personal computers infringe on EZ4Media's patents. The patents under investigation are U.S. Patent No. 7,130,616, 7,142,934, 7,142,935, and 7,167,765. EZ4 collected to patents from Universal Electronics back in March. The company claims that Apple hired three former Universal Electronics employees about a year before it introduced Apple TV. One ex-employee, Nick Kalayjian states that he had no involvement with the ...
