Roxio responds to Optima lawsuit - we will fight back
Posted on 16/12/03 17:31 by Jan Willem                             
Roxio responds to Optima lawsuit - we will fight back
Recently we were the first website to report that Californian Optima technology was sueing Roxio, developers of Easy CD/DVD Creators and owner of the Napster brand. The scoop was given to us by the president of Optima a long time reader of our site.

The company was filing the suit against Roxio as it claims Roxio is violating a patent owned by Optima. In a press release Roxio states the following to make clear that it will fight back in court:

We are aware of the Optima '531 patent and the claims within and believe that any claim of infringement by Roxio's software products is utterly without merit. At Roxio, we respect the legitimate intellectual property rights of others but in this instance there is no colorable argument that the claims set forth in the patent read on any Roxio products. We intend to aggressively defend ourselves in this litigation.

More information about this lawsuit that could have effect on the entire optical storage industry can be found here. The press release of Roxio can be found here.

Source: Yahoo.com

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By GristyMcFisty, Tue 16 Dec 2003 18:05
GristyMcFisty...get your choppers out guys and fight to the death...
By dentman42, Tue 16 Dec 2003 21:55
I think prior art will prevail. I know the software that came with my first burner back in '95 (Easy CD by Incat, later purchased by Adaptec and spun off as Roxio) offered the ability to build an image rather than write on the fly and I suspect it predates Optima's claim. The patent should have been rejected as obvious anyway.

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