Published: December 13, 2017
Publisher: Bloomberg BNA
“The International Trade Commission said it would partially review an initial ruling that Sony Corp. infringed two Fujifilm Corp. magnetic tape patents, opening the door for the agency to provide guidance on enforcing patents essential to widely used technology standards.
An ITC administrative law judge found in September that Sony infringed the two patents, but not three others. Both companies are aggressively vying for control of the market for mass data storage under the LTO (Linear Tape-Open) standard.”