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USA VIDEO INTERACTIVE CP (U-USVO) - News Release
USA gets unfavourable judgment in Movielink lawsuit
2005-01-31 05:30 ET - News Release
Mr. Edwin Molina reports
SUMMARY DECISION ISSUED IN PATENT LITIGATION
USA Video Interactive Corp. regrets that the honourable Judge Kent A. Jordan of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware has entered an order of summary judgment against USA Video Interactive in its patent infringement litigation against Movielink LLC. Management of USA Video became aware of this adverse ruling after the close of business on Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. It is the court's determination that Movielink does not infringe USA Video's United States patent No. 5,130,792 because of the way certain components of Movielink's accused system operate. Specifically, under the court's "markman" construction of the term "initiates" in USA Video's patent claims, the court concluded that "there is no issue of fact to prevent the conclusion that the Movielink Multi-CDN system does not have a distribution interface that initiates connections."
The court therefore granted certain Movielink motions as to non-infringement and otherwise denied both parties' pending motions as moot. The court declined to render a "markman" construction of any other patent claim terms other than "initiates." The court did not determine that USA Video's patent rights are invalid or unenforceable. Consequently, the patent in suit remains entitled to the legal presumption of validity, and other companies providing video on-demand (VOD) products and services may still be liable for infringing the patent.
As to Movielink and the present litigation, USA Video and its legal counsel are analyzing the court's written opinion and considering possible options for recourse within the court system. Accordingly, management cannot further comment on these developments at this time. Notwithstanding the court's adverse ruling, which applies only to Movielink, USA Video is separately evaluating other companies' potential infringement with a view toward pursuing licensing opportunities where appropriate.
Current business
USA Video has developed and is currently working toward the commercialization of a turnkey embedded work station that provides lip-synchronized video/audio intelligent watermarking solution for content (movies, broadcasting) forensic tracking purposes (the MS 200). The MS 200 product will come as a professional rack-mount-type workstation with SmartMark 2.0 embedded software that works with Windows 2000 or XP, in conjunction with existing professional recording/playback equipment. SmartMark 2.0 software can be used to insert a unique set of content density monitoring particles (content agents) in USA Video's MediaSentinel watermark generator that goes onto a digital tape. Any copy onto a disc or a peer-to-peer file still carries the set of content agents, creating a robust, video dynamics oriented watermark generation solution.
MediaSentinel is a digital-watermark-based technology, which deters video content piracy by preserving in any unauthorized copies, an encrypted identifier which was embedded in the original authorized video content.
With SmartMark 2.0 implemented into an MS 200 workstation, large volumes of uniquely watermarked digital master and submaster copies can be created. Key management generates a set of keys unique for each user, such as company name, USA Video's internal company code, or other parameter, used as a "seed" for key generation.
SmartMark 2.0 powers the underlying USA Video MediaSentinel watermark technology as a significantly enhanced version of the same technology that was deployed last October at Lightning Media's facility, Hollywood, Calif., with the primary goal of safeguarding the original content and assisting in the discovery of the origin of illegally copied and distributed versions of motion pictures and broadcast shows prior to their official release.
A new graphical user interface provides control of the watermarking and key management process. The results of the SmartMark 2.0 process are extremely piracy attack resistant and uniquely marked and identify content master copies as an input onto a DVD disc.
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