PlayStation Vue Infringes 4 Arris Patents on Video Playback, Complaint Alleges
Sony’s PlayStation Vue over-the-top service violates four Arris patents on video playback and content navigation, Arris alleged in a Thursday complaint. For example, Vue features a "My Shows" function that "can be used to capture and store a continuous feed…
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of video into a digital video format," said the complaint (in Pacer) filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland. That's in direct violation of an October 2008 patent on methods for implementing seamless playback of "continuous media feeds" that Arris co-owns by assignment with Alcatel Lucent, the complaint said. Arris “has no adequate remedy at law for Sony’s acts of infringement,” it said. Arris “has suffered and continues to suffer damages and irreparable harm” as a “direct and proximate result of Sony’s acts of infringement,” it said. Arris “will continue to be damaged and irreparably harmed” unless Sony’s violations “are enjoined by this Court,” it says. Sony representatives didn’t comment Friday.