The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed two separate lower court decisions in favor of LG Electronics in patent infringement cases brought by the Multimedia Patent Trust. In one decision Thursday, in docket 13-1621 (http://1.usa.gov/1mogF82), the circuit court affirmed a December 2012 jury verdict in U.S. District Court in San Diego that found LG did not infringe the two patents asserted by MPT relating to video compression technology (U.S. Patents 5,136,377 and 5,227,878). In its second ruling, in docket 13-1620 (http://1.usa.gov/1jFwhcu), the federal circuit upheld LG’s August 2013 win in San Diego federal court on preclusion grounds in another patent infringement lawsuit MPT had filed against LG involving the same two patents. LG is “very pleased that the appeals court has vindicated the position we have maintained all along -- that LG products do not infringe MPT’s patents,” the company said in a statement. “With hundreds of such patents of our own, LG Electronics is a leader in the very type of video compression technology MPT had wrongly accused LG of infringing.” MPT didn’t immediately comment.