USA Video Interactive says that its wholly owned subsidiary, USA Video Technology, has retained the law firm of Goldstein & Faucett LLP to handle its ongoing attempts to enforce its VOD patent claims, including its ongoing lawsuit against Hollywood studio-backed, Web-based VOD provider, Movielink. Goldstein & Faucett is a Houston-based firm that specializes in enforcing patents via licensing and patent-infringement suits.
USA Video claims that Movielink's service infringes upon a patent (US #5,130,792), which is entitled "Store and Forward Video System," and which describes "a system and method for a user to request, and have delivered over an electronic network, a digitized video program." (Note: unlike Acacia Media Technologies, which has met with some success in convincing VOD companies to license a series of VOD-related patents that it owns, USA Video actually developed the technologies described in its patent itself: it says that the technology described by the patent was developed and tested in partnership with Rochester Telephone Corp. It filed for the patent in 1990, was awarded it in 1992, and has since then succeeded in getting the patent approved in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, and Japan.) On January 28th, the US District Court for the District of Delaware ruled that Movielink's service is not willfully infringing upon USA Video's patent. However, USA Video is appealing that decision.
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