Texas MP3 Technologies files a lawsuit against Apple, Samsung Electronics and SanDisk

Texas MP3 Technologies files a lawsuit against Apple, Samsung Electronics and SanDisk

Texas MP3 Technologies has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the three tech giants Apple, Samsung and SanDisk.

This lawsuit was originally filed on 16 February in Marshall, Texas. Interestingly, this city is increasingly becoming a choice of location for such lawsuits.

Texas MP3 Technologies has claimed in the lawsuit that these three companies are infringing upon US patent 7,065,417, which was awarded in June 2006 to multimedia chipmaker SigmaTel.

The patent covers “an MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a method for reproducing sound data compressed using the MPEG method”.

SigmaTel said in a statement while announcing the sale of the patent to a Dallas-based patent licensing agency: “Because these are such basic patents to digital music, we believe it will be difficult to design around these patents and have a commercially viable player.”