CORRECTING and REPLACING OpenTV Subsidiary ACTV Wins on Appeal in Patent Infringement Suit with Walt Disney Company, ABC and ESPN.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors CORRECTION...by OpenTV SAN FRANCISCO & TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2003 In BW5727 issued Oct. 9, 2003: In the first paragraph of release dated Oct. 9, 2003 the press release correctly announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued an opinion vacating the grant of summary judgment by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in OpenTV subsidiaries ACTV ACTV Active ACTV Activate ACTV Azienda del Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (Venice Public Transport Company, Italy) ACTV Advanced Compatible Television , Inc.'s and HyperTV Networks, Inc.'s lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company and Disney subsidiaries ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , Inc. and ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , Inc. The second paragraph, however, contained an incorrect statement that ACTV's foregoing lawsuit charges Disney and ABC with "infringement of a fourth patent in connection with ABC's Internet-enhanced broadcasts of `Jeopardy!' and `Wheel of Fortune' on its owned, operated and affiliated stations." ACTV's lawsuit alleges that the enhanced television or ETV ETV abbr. educational television ETV n abbr (US) (= Educational Television) → televisión escolar ETV n abbr (US) (= Educational Television system offered by ABC and ESPN in connection with their broadcast of ABC's "Monday Night Football “MNF” redirects here. For other uses, see MNF (disambiguation). Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. " and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and ESPN's "Sunday Night Football Sunday Night Football can refer to one of three National Football League television series:
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