{"id":7972,"date":"2010-12-31T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2010-12-31T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T17:33:15","slug":"sony-sues-lg-for-patent-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sony-sues-lg-for-patent-violation","title":{"rendered":"Sony sues LG for patent violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Soni-mobile.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7973\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sony-sues-lg-for-patent-violation\/soni-mobile\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/Soni-mobile.jpg?fit=268%2C188&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"268,188\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Soni mobile\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/Soni-mobile.jpg?fit=268%2C188&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7973\" title=\"Soni mobile\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Soni-mobile.jpg?resize=268%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/Soni-mobile.jpg?w=268&amp;ssl=1 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/Soni-mobile.jpg?resize=150%2C105&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>Sony has taken the plunge into the escalating mobile phone patent wars. The Japanese electronics company has sued South Korean rival LG for patent infringement, claiming that LG&#8217;s mobile phones violate seven Sony patents, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Sony filed the patent suit Wednesday with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and with the US District Court in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The legal action alleged that the LG phones violated Sony patents on band-width allocation, image capture, audio recording, network management and using photos as part of a caller ID system.<\/p>\n<p>In filing the lawsuit, Sony joins a growing list of companies which have filed patent violation complaints over technology used in increasingly sophisticated smartphones. These include Apple, Microsoft, HTC, and Nokia.<\/p>\n<p>Sony claimed that the patents allegedly infringed upon by LG had been licensed to other companies such as Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.<\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit, Sony asked the ITC to block imports to the US of LG phones that use the contested technology.<\/p>\n<p>The legal action coincided with reports from Japan that Sony is to release a smartphone based on its PSP3 portable gaming console as it tries to make a late effort to thwart the threat posed by Apple&#8217;s iPhone and phones powered by Google&#8217;s Android operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has taken the plunge into the escalating mobile phone patent wars. The Japanese electronics company has sued South Korean rival LG for patent infringement, claiming that LG&#8217;s mobile phones violate seven Sony patents, according to court documents. 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