Israel's Emblaze Patent Infringement Trial against Apple began Today
In 2010 Patently Apple was first to report that an Israeli company by the name of Emblaze Ltd., maker of the advanced "Else" smartphone, filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. for patent infringement. The lawsuit involves a single patent relating to real-time broadcasting over a network that the company claims is used without license by Apple in their iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and QuickTime X in Snow Leopard. Today that trial began in San Jose.
Emblaze's attorney Martin Pavane told jurors at the start of its trial against Apple, that Apple pushed organizations such as Major League Baseball to adopt its format for streaming live video, causing them to infringe their patented technology.
Emblaze, based in Hertzliya Pituach, Israel, argued that its U.S. granted patent issued in back in 2002 covers a process for delivering live streaming video over wireless networks without interruption.
Apple began working on its HTTP live streaming service, or HLS, "no earlier than 2007," demanding that services such as "At Bat" use the format to drive sales of iPhones and iPads -- and inducing infringement of Emblaze's patent, Pavane said.
"Apple's HLS is nothing more than Emblaze's patented solution under a different name," Pavane stated.
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