United States : Arbitron sues Digimarc over monitoring technology.Byline: Mamta03 ARBITRON Inc., the company that measures the audiences of US radio stations, sued Digimarc Corp. seeking to invalidate nine patents covering technology to monitor broadcasts. Digimarc allegedly sent Arbitron a letter in July claiming Arbitron s technique for detecting an inaudible code embedded in radio broadcasts infringes patents held by the company and may require a license. Arbitron asked a judge to bar Digimarc from suing the company for infringement, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a complaint made public in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. . Arbitron has a reasonable apprehension of imminent harm that is sufficient to warrant issuance of a judgment that the Digimarc patents are invalid and/or not infringed, lawyers for the company said in the complaint. The dispute centers on Arbitron s method for estimating the number of radio listeners through the use of its portable people meter The Portable People Meter (sometimes mistakenly "Personal People Meter") or PPM, is a device developed by Arbitron to measure how many people are listening (or at least exposed) to individual radio stations and television stations, including cable TV. , or PPM, system. The meters are carried by listeners and pick up embedded codes identifying radio stations. Digimarc said in its July letter that its patents were infringed by the way the meters detect the codes. Arbitron, based in Columbia, Maryland Columbia is a census-designated place and planned community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Baltimore, and, to a lesser degree, Washington, DC. It began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life. , spent more than 20 years developing and acquiring the technology associated with the PPM and has been granted more than 15 US patents related to audio encoding and monitoring technology, according to its complaint. We re aware of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. and we re in conversation with Arbitron, Bob Chamness, Digimarc chief legal officer, said in a phone interview. In January, Arbitron settled lawsuits by 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 and New Jersey that claimed its method of estimating listeners under-represented minorities. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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