General Patent Corporation Reaches Settlement in Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Sakar International, Inc., Casio Computer Co. Ltd., Casio America, Inc., Electro Flip LLC and Audiovox Electronics Corporation
08/18/2011
General Patent Corporation announced on behalf of its subsidiary, Advanced Video Technologies LLC, that it reach a settlement with Sakar International, Inc. of Edison, N.J. in a patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Sakar and six other video camera suppliers. AVT owns U.S. Patent No. 5,781,788 titled "Full Duplex Single Chip Video Codec." In December of 2010, AVT filed a patent infringement lawsuit (Case No. 10-cv-9013) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against seven video camera vendors. Thus far, Sakar is the fifth defendant to settle this lawsuit. Other companies, including Casio Computer Co. Ltd. and Casio America, Inc., Electro Flip LLC and Audiovox Electronics Corporation, had previously licensed the '788 Patent.
