Faroudja files lawsuit against Snell & Wilcox for patent infringement.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 1997--Faroudja Laboratories has filed a lawsuit against Snell & Wilcox for patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. by the so-called "Interpolator in·ter·po·late v. in·ter·po·lat·ed, in·ter·po·lat·ing, in·ter·po·lates v.tr. 1. To insert or introduce between other elements or parts. 2. a. To insert (material) into a text. " product of Snell & Wilcox. "It is our policy to defend our intellectual property, and we will not accept that other companies-manufacturers, distributors or dealers-benefit from the use of our patents," said Yves Faroudja, Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Faroudja Laboratories. "We intend to use the full extent of the law to prevent it." Faroudja has retained the law firm of Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear, which specializes in the protection of intellectual property rights, to represent it in its lawsuit against Snell & Wilcox. Faroudja Laboratories owns the rights to more than 55 U.S. and foreign patents in the field of video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. , and has garnered numerous technology awards, including an Emmy and the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, White Plains, NY, www.smpte.org) A professional society for motion picture and TV engineers with more than 9,000 members worldwide. It prepares standards and documentation for TV production. David Sarnoff gold medal. The company is considered a world leader in the area of television image quality. Its technology covers noise reduction, enhancement, PAL/NTSC encoding and decoding, and scanning line multiplication. The company manufactures high-quality PAL/NTSC decoders, and line doublers and quadruplers. In addition, Yves Faroudja has licensed some of his patents to VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. manufacturers such as Sony, JVC JVC Victor Company of Japan (or Japan's Victor Company) JVC Jewelers Vigilance Committee JVC Jesuit Volunteer Corps JVC Jet Vane Control (directs VLS-launched missiles) JVC Jonker-Volgenant-Castanon , Mitsubishi, Matsushita, Sharp, Sanyo, Hitachi and Toshiba. CONTACT: J.B. Stanton Communications 212/581-8188 Voice 212/581-8225 Fax or Stan Pinkwas/CS: 104222,3531 stanp@jbstanton.com Bryan Stanton/AOL: JBStan CS: 73602,1344 jbs@jbstanton.com |
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