Berlin Rules Sansa MP3 Players' Seizure Legal
14 Dec, 2006, 8:00 pm IST | by
Sharon Khare
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The Criminal Chamber of the Landgericht (regional court) Berlin in Germany has recently ruled that the seizure of all of the MP3 players marketed as part of SanDisk’s 'Sansa' product lines and the related advertising material exhibited at the SanDisk booth in September at IFA 2006 was legal. The Berlin court said that it was "of the opinion that there are sufficient grounds for suspicion of deliberate patent infringement". Since all the other legal requirements were also met, the Berlin court confirmed that the seizure of the SanDisk MP3 players and the advertising material was legitimate. "It was good to learn about the ruling of the Court," said Ing. Paolo D'Amato, CEO of Sisvel Spa. "SanDisk should not be surprised by this decision. All the MP3 players sold by the most important consumer electronics companies in the world are licensed under the patents that Audio MPEG and Sisvel license, including the famous iPod of Apple, the new Zune of Microsoft, the award winning Zen of Creative, and all the MP3-capable cell phones sold by Motorola, Nokia, and Sony-Ericsson, while the MP3 players sold by SanDisk are not." On the basis of a search order issued by Amtsgericht Tiergarten (district court) of Berlin on August 31, 2006, the Public Prosecutor together with the customs investigation agency carried out a search on September 1, 2006 at the SanDisk booth at the IFA exhibition. All SanDisk's MP3 players, from a total of nine different 'Sansa' product lines, as well as the corresponding advertising material were seized. In deciding that the seizure was lawful, the Court overruled the earlier decision of the district court which had considered the seizure disproportionate in spite of initial suspicion of patent violation. Sisvel has filed claims of patent infringement against SanDisk in The Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom claiming that SanDisk's MP3 players infringe patents that Sisvel license and seeking an injunction and damages. An additional lawsuit against SanDisk, also claiming that SanDisk's MP3 players are infringing, has been filed by Audio MPEG, Sisvel's subsidiary, in the United States. |
Tags: MP3 Players , Sandisk , Sansa , Sisvel
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