Sony’s Blu-Ray Patent Group Sues Imation Over Blank Discs
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Sony Corp. and three other companies that helped invent Blu-Ray movie discs sued Imation Corp., claiming the data-storage company broke patent laws by selling blank, recordable versions of the discs.
Imation violated several patents related to Blu-Ray technology, which allows a sharper picture than traditional DVD movie discs, Sony and the other consumer electronics makers said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware.