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Studios Sued Over Video Patents by Alcatel-Associated Trust

Walt Disney Co., some of News Corp.’s Fox units and NBC Universal Inc. have been sued by a trust associated with Alcatel-Lucent SA, accused of infringing patents for video compression technology.

Multimedia Patent Trust, of which Alcatel is a 99 percent beneficiary, claims DVD and Blu-ray discs sold by the movie and television studios are infringing its patents. Via BusinessWeek