Wasn't Sony the sole creator of BLURAY? How can LG sue them?

[yoda313]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20037743-17.html?tag=TOCmoreStories.0

I thought Sony created Bluray on its own. How can LG sue Sony for anything related to Bluray?

Wasn't this similar to how JVC created vhs but let others make compatible players? Didn't Sony make Bluray and then licensed it out to other companies? How can LG sue Sony over something they made?

Or was Sony involved in a cooperative over the creation of Bluray and simply is the majority owner so to speak?

The patents relate to the way the console's Blu-ray player uses data from a Blu-ray disc, namely for the "reproduction of multiple data streams" when several camera angles are used, as well as how text is displayed with subtitles.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20037743-17.html#ixzz1FNo2uegn

Edit - besides mulitple data streams seems really vague and multiple camera angles have been around since dvd days - unless they mean something like the in-movie experience with video popups during playback?

And since when is subtitle process patented???

[menes777]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association

[yoda313]

Thanks menes777. So they were part of a group. How much of it was developed in-house by Sony though? I mean I know patents get used in everything and nothing is usually 100% proprietary.

[menes777]

I am not sure I fully understand the suit either, seems more like tit for tat on LG's part. I suppose that's par for the course these days now though.

[yoda313]

I am not sure I fully understand the suit either, seems more like tit for tat on LG's part. I suppose that's par for the course these days now though.

Yeah.

One of the articles I read mentioned something about this being a countersuit to sony for some phone allegation sony made about lg.

Go figure.....