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Federal Court Rules Command Audio Patents Enforceable; Sony Assertions of Inequitable Conduct Rejected in Digital Video Recorder Infringement Suit - Jan 13, 2005 10:01 AM (BusinessWire) SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2005--Command Audio Corporation, a leader in the development and delivery of broadcast on-demand media, announced today that, after conducting a trial, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled against Sony Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:SNE), rejecting Sony's contentions that Command Audio purposely misled the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the early 1990s while seeking its foundation on-demand media patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,406,626). Consequently, Command Audio's lawsuit against Sony for infringing two related Command Audio patents will continue to move forward. In June 2004 the Court ruled summarily that Sony had been infringing at least one of those patents, U.S. Patent No. 6,330,334 (the "'334 patent"). Sony's products held proven to infringe include digital video recorders (DVRs, also known as Personal Video Recorders, or PVRs) made under license from TiVo, Inc. (NASDAQ:TIVO) and Sony's VAIO(TM) personal computers with DVR functionality provided by Sony's GigaPocket(TM) software. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=46188298

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